He is for President but not Galaxy. Haha, I bet he’d flip his wig, he doesn’t seem to favor the black box radios.
That 50 watts on Cmessina’s radio and the 50-55 I saw on mine is most likely 2nd harmonics. Yes, that’s a terrible dirty thing and it’s not real power and it’s heat and distortion and so on. Tune your radio to the way you like it, if you’re happy with it, forget what everybody else says and thinks. This hobby is like everything, once you stop trying to satisfy yourself but everyone else then it’s no fun anymore.
If someone says it sounds good and you’re happy with it, awesome, even if the waveform looks like an entire Union Pacific rail yard.
Yes it is incorrect and will shorten the life of parts but who cares? They make parts every day and it’s what keeps repair guys going.
My first car was a 1966 Mustang when I was 16, it’s sitting in my yard today and I’m 45. When I got it I started restoring it and then there were things I wanted to change that wasn’t “correct”. I took that car to many shows, had piles of trophies for it but kept hearing how this or that part wasn’t “correct”. I got points taken off cause I had an Alpine pullout in the dash. At some point I realized that I got that car for me, not for those other people. And I realized the only person I need to satisfy was me, not everyone else. And that point I did just that and I did that car to suit me and I was much happier. I also stopped showing it because I was sick of hearing that my radio wasn’t correct or my air cleaner wasn’t correct or my wheel choice.
It’s your radio, enjoy it.
