The invention relates to a radio transmitter using QAM modulation, comprising a first transmit filter for filtering data symbols to be transmitted to form a waveform, means for comparing the waveform to a predetermined threshold value, means for clipping power peaks that exceed the predetermined threshold value from the waveform to form a clipped waveform, means for multiplying the clipped power peaks with an impulse response of a receive filter to form an impaired signal, means for subtracting the impaired signal from the data symbols to be transmitted to form subtracted data symbols, a second transmit filter for filtering the reduced data symbols to form a modulated signal, and means for up-converting the modulated signal to a transmission frequency.