Tone
The T stands for "Tone". Tone is used only used in Morse code and digital transmissions and is therefore omitted during voice operations. With modern transmitter technology, imperfections in the quality of the transmitter modulation that can be detected by humans are rare. Tone is measured on a scale of 1 to 9.
- Sixty cycle a.c or less, very rough and broad
- Very rough a.c., very harsh and broad
- Rough a.c. tone, rectified but not filtered
- Rough note, some trace of filtering
- Filtered rectified a.c. but strongly ripple-modulated
- Filtered tone, definite trace of ripple modulation
- Near pure tone, trace of ripple modulation
- Near perfect tone, slight trace of modulation
- Perfect tone, no trace of ripple or modulation of any kind
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