Sound-to-Picture Power Ratio

During the Television Allocations Study Organization´s deliberations the question of lowering the television soundto-picture power ratio from 50 per cent to 10 per cent was raised to determine its effect on allocation policy. The transmitter engineers favored it as simplifying the transmitter and reducing its price. The receiver engineers opposed it as reducing the useful range of the receiver and complicating its design. While TASO made no recommendation on the question, it is the author´s personal opinion that it is best to leave well enough alone.