Brendan Minish wrote: > An undershoot of ~ 20% for the first few seconds of transmission on a > new frequency might be an irritant but an overshoot or aggressive fast > acting ALC leads to spatter on peaks, this is very common issue on the > bands today > An undershoot of ~20% on peaks (it's less on my K3) is negligible in > terms of the receiving end signal strength and a small price to pay for > a cleaner transmitted signal.
Folks, maybe I am missing so much here, but 20% undershoot at 100W "requested" is 20W. The difference between 80W and 100W is 0.96910 dB, assuming my HP48GX can still do logs after all these years. I think Brendan has it right, a second or two of some power between 80 and 100W really is negligible. On SSB [not often my mode], I step on the switch under the desk and talk ... works every time ... as long as I remember -- "Step, then talk." Now, pretending that I actually know what I'm about to say ... I think the power control in the K3 [and K2] is a big negative feedback loop called ALC by some. How would it know where to stabilize to a requested power before power, any power, actually happened? On a different subject, I'd pay money for a published decision tree for firmware updates and whether or not I need to install them. Often -- OK, always -- this occurs just before the contest. Many affect things that don't affect me, others can be another story. 73, Fred K6DGW ______________________________________________________________ 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
