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| Dec 26, 2023 at 22:08 | history | edited | hobbs - KC2G | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 8, 2020 at 16:09 | comment | added | user10489 | A handful of people in our club got our radios tested by ARRL. If I recall correctly, we got back a sheet (hand written, filled out in front of us) listing the frequency and magnitude of the highest spur and how close it was to compliance. The spur is always in the same place for the same test frequency, it's the harmonic of the frequency. | |
| May 7, 2020 at 20:13 | comment | added | Mike Waters | A QST article a few years ago said it was on 220. | |
| May 7, 2020 at 19:22 | comment | added | hobbs - KC2G | @MikeWaters the article just says that they recorded the power of the worst spur or harmonic, nothing specific on what that was. I suppose the people who operated the analyzer know :) | |
| May 7, 2020 at 18:50 | comment | added | Mike Waters | Thanks. Was this because of the harmonics on 220 MHz that the ARRL measured into a dummy load? | |
| May 7, 2020 at 0:28 | comment | added | hobbs - KC2G | @user10489 I did, specifically, from the beginning, give a page number in an issue. | |
| May 6, 2020 at 23:48 | comment | added | user10489 | You mentioned the source. Citing it would be giving a link or a page number in an issue so that people could go read the whole article. But including the table directly is great too! | |
| May 6, 2020 at 19:06 | comment | added | hobbs - KC2G | To be more clear, the total number of tested Baofengs across the three years was 241 (108 + 88 + 45), and the total number compliant was 18 (9% of 108 + 5% of 88 + 9% of 45). 18 / 241 = 7.5%. | |
| May 6, 2020 at 18:56 | comment | added | hobbs - KC2G | @user10489 I did cite my source. But for convenience I've included the table from the cited article in my post. My working is a simple weighted average across the three years represented. And no, they're not getting better. | |
| May 6, 2020 at 18:56 | history | edited | hobbs - KC2G | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 6, 2020 at 14:26 | comment | added | user10489 | Can you cite a source for these numbers? I remember reading the article and it was more like 50% were compliant and 20% were marginal, making about 1/3 non-compliant rather than the other way around. Also, teh trend was that they were improving. | |
| May 5, 2020 at 20:17 | history | answered | hobbs - KC2G | CC BY-SA 4.0 |