On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 02:10:52 GMT, legg wrote:

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 10:36:21 +0100, Paul Burridge
wrote:

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:43:34 -0700, John Larkin
wrote:

Have you actually built a class C linear RF power amp? Tell us how it
works.

It depends on how you define "linear" basically. But the term is a
total misnomer in RF amp terminology and very misleading. I can't
understand how it got there. :-/

I'd always understood that it refered to an operating frequency range
with a wide bandwidth, therefore suited to FM or frequency hopping.

Curious. I have a book (by an author whose name I can't recall off
hand) called "High-Linearity RF Amplifier Design" in which said author
claims that a linear RF amplifier is one in which the transmitted
signal, regardless of however non-linear it may be, is passed through
sufficient filtering to clean it up! Work that one out if you can!
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