Are you tired of seeing me post about my rigs? 9/28/2016 ~ Some recent updates I have often said that most of my rigs are experimenter's platforms and the Junk Box Rig stands as an example of that approach. Everyday I look at possibilities for improvement --some changes are in the negative column but many are in the positive direction. Usually I employ the concept of TFMS when "peaking and tweaking" a rig. Oh almost forgot TFMS is an old timer term for Tune For Maximum Smoke. Well in this case when I had the rig outfitted to run 700 Watts out (Yes, Virginia, that is not QRP) I found that I got a report of splatter. One of those Flex Guys saw me pop up on his 60 inch color display and he reported I was very broad and splattering over onto other frequencies. He was absolutely right! If you are running QRP at one watt --there may be splatter that is hardly noticed but magnify that 700 times and you will notice that your signal is broad and spilling over the normal
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