Hmmmm, my EE degree is only 37 years old and the term also seems clear and descriptive to me too.... hmmm wonder if that also makes me an old fart???
73 es God. bless, Art/K0ACP Sent from my iPad > On Sep 15, 2020, at 8:24 PM, Jim Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 9/15/2020 3:55 PM, Andy Durbin wrote: >> Who ever coined the term "predistortion" should be taken behind the bicycle >> shed and introduced to a 2x4. The terminology is the epitome of obfuscation! > > Hmmm. My EE degree is 56 years old, but the term seems quite clear and > descriptive to an old fart like me! > > It's been done in audio systems for at least four decades, where it uses > motional feedback from the loudspeakers to which the systems were carefully > matched. The implementation was intended to correct for non-linearities in > the loudspeakers, which are far greater than in the electronics. > > 73, Jim K9YC > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
