Dalite said:The tighter the design, the more sharply it can be tuned.
The very thing that keeps the output signal relatively clean and contained in the allocated frequency range will sharply attenuate the signal outside of the allocated frequency range.
When it comes to doing the tuning with components, rather than mechanical adjustments, the final output is going to be biased toward the design frequency and falls off the further it goes from the design frequency.
Out of simplicity, in some circuits made for use across a wide audience, Channel 1 can be chosen by default with the thought tat the audience is looking for plug and play integration.
Another design approach made for a specialty audience that is more concerned over actual RF performance could be designed for the middle of the range. These companies may use some from each design.
Some of these channels are linear ( from lowest to highest) where some could be assigned as pairs (to allow full duplex design potential) and may have two "sets" of frequencies ; a high and a low. You can see this approach in the common "channels" shared between the GMRS and FRS radios used for voice in the 450 MHz band.
The thing to take away from the power charts would be that in order for the power to be the same throughout the entire band would require a broadband design, which is not as "clean" of a signal as one from a design that is sharply focused. In our application, cleaner is better. We have a number of frequencies we are juggling, and don't want to have to cope with dirty designs where one band interferes with another.
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