Indeed. Folks who would never think to turn off the AGC in their receivers get
weak-kneed at the thought of AGC (ALC) being used in the transmit loop. In
"Fundamentals of SSB", Collins radio speaks of ALC (pp.7-10,11) without any
negativity, and in fact calls it a form of speech compression. As in many
things, the devil is in the details.
I suspect most of the Elecraft faithful would also be surprised to know that
their beloved K3s use internal ALC as well as digital power control. This is not
perfect, I've observed overshoot, power slowly increasing to set level and low
level power jitter*.
* You need a spectrum analyzer to see this and it's unlikely to be heard on the
air, but it's there.
Wes N7WS
On 3/9/2019 10:59 AM, KENT TRIMBLE wrote:
...
As a friend of mine puts it, the ALC controversy borders on being a religious
issue.
73,
Kent K9ZTV
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