Are you maintaining a constant ALC indication of 5-7 bars at each gain setting? Or is the ALC indication falling as you lower the gain setting?
Bob NW8L On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:04 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have not done much SSB so I am not sure what is happening, but this does > not seem correct so I will descibe what is happening. > > When I turn on my K3 #2080 for a MARS net I need to have the MIC gain set to > about 25, and the Processor set to 15 for my HC5/Heil Proset to get about 95 > Watts out initially, which I feel is excellent. However, after a few > minutes I can turn down the gain and still get 95 Watts out. After about 10 > minutes I have the MIC gain down to 8 and I am still blasting away at 95 > Watts. I feel I could go even lower. > > Its funny though that at any gain level I always get a good report. Its > like the MIC gain is really not critical and the rig knows how to adjust for > your voice for best signal. > > I thought that maybe as I get used to speaking I start talking more > forcefully and need to cut the gain down but I've consciously tried to avoid > this, and the minimum apparent required MIC gain just seems to drop after a > few minutes. > > Anyway the rig apparently works great like this. I just thought that this > condition was not normal. > > 72, > > Steve, W2MY, AAR6CX > > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: [email protected] > You must be a subscriber to post to the list. > Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm > Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com > _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
