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Class E Tutorials

pascoradio

pascoradio

I did not realize that I would create so much turmoil over the links I provided concerning Class E operation. First I got clocked because the first post mentioned O-scopes and because it was a higher power Amplifier it did not pertain to Part 15 levels. Huh? Am I missing something here? And then when I posed a another link to satisfy the low power requirement the beef was the operating frequencies. Thanks to Friend Neil who continues to maintain objectivity.
 
Information that describes how Class E really works sounds too much like defenses of the Part 15 AM Transmitter Challenge, which contradicts some of the dogma promoted on the website involved. This is why you received so much undeserved abuse. As for Friend Neil, he ought to know better than the rest, being a present or former EE faculty member, principal moderator of the site; and he furthermore appears to have independently re-invented the Class E amplifier himself, apparently without any previous knowledge of Class E. His own high-efficiency transmitter circuit design is a non-obvious variant of a canonical Class E amplifier. Even so, it seems to me that Prof. Neil has consumed at least some of the tainted beverage (K-A) which has been distributed on his site.
 
You mean as opposed to the dogma presented on the AM Challenge website, which you fully participate in?

There's been far too much opinion, and far too few facts put forward.

I propose that the dogma be put aside, in the interests of the hobby.

There was a place for the Challenge, but it didn't go far enough.

There is also a place where a fully functioning at its peak AMT5000 be tested against the Rangemaster, no matter what it takes to get there. It should all be documented, of course.

And then individuals can choose to make up their own minds which of the transmitters is a winner, and if it's worth it to use it.
 
You must be the guy with the Rangemaster, the AMT-5000, and the canoe. Why don't you do exactly what you suggested in your post and post a report of your results?
 
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