Well..he DID use the term "equivalent".....
I get it, but you know what it will sound like if everyone starts
crankin on that compression knob :)
I agree with everything else you just said BTW
Curt
On 08/20/18 3:02 PM, Clay Autery wrote:
That was unnecessary.... It was neither asserted or even remotely
suggested that 5 W or 100W could be made to "sound like 1 KW"...
IN FACT, power level has little to do with HOW something sounds...
volume? yes, quality? Not nearly as much.
The POINT that I and Jim (more succinctly) were trying to make it that
not ALL 5 W signals are equal.... not by any stretch of the
imagination of by any level of desire.
All things being equal... a PROPERLY formed 5W signal will be "heard"
(more accurately "understood") by a larger "audience" than a POORLY
formed 5 W signal....
And a properly formed signal will likely be understood by more folks
than a poorly formed signal pushed out at higher power.
PS -
Not sure why, but there seems to be a lot of cranky folks spoiling for
an argument/fight lately...
Chill out, guys!
73,
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On 20-Aug-18 13:35, Curt Nixon wrote:
So if I utilize these same compression and hpf adjustments and
equalization my 100W will sound like 1KW?? maybe on paper..
KU8L
On 08/20/18 2:12 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
On 8/20/2018 7:37 AM, K3ICH wrote:
As the saying goes, "Five watts is five watts".
The saying is an oversimplification. The KX3 includes two important
tools to increase talk power on SSB -- TX equalization, which can be
set to emphasize speech intelligibility and minimize power wasted
below 400 Hz, and amplitude compression and peak limiting, which
brings quieter speech sounds closer to the level of louder ones.
When set for about 10 dB of compression on voice peaks, it makes 5 w
the equivalent of 50W, and the TXEQ settings add 3 dB, making 5W the
equivalent of 100W.
These tools, which are called "audio signal processing," have been
used in broadcasting since at least the '50s. They are also built
into the K3, K3S, and KX2.
73, Jim K9YC
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