Owen Duffy wrote in
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John Smith I wrote in news:esvehb$f2v$1
@registered.motzarella.org:

Owen Duffy wrote:
It is often overlooked that the power of an SSB telephony signal
averaged over a longish time (but not accounting for the duty cycle of
"overs") is around 15dB (a little less for speech processing), so the
heating effect of 500W PEP telephony might be more like 15W.

Duh, guess who left a minus sign out, should read:

It is often overlooked that the power of an SSB telephony signal
averaged over a longish time (but not accounting for the duty cycle of
"overs") is around -15dB (a little less for speech processing), so the
heating effect of 500W PEP telephony might be more like 15W.

Owen