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loosecannon
loosecannon
not dumb at all.
yes, your amp wants no more than 3 watts of a deadkey on AM, but when on AM your modulation can swing up to 20 watts or so.
loosecannon
loosecannon
the reason the amp can handle this is because you are not putting a constant tone through the mic and it just has to take that abuse for fractions of a second at a time.