Couldn't agree more. Especially the split-band processing part :-)
http://k6mhe.com/n7ws/S_PROC.pdf
BTW, arguably one of the best sounding SSB rigs around, the TS870 does use
split-band speech clipping done in DSP. I bought mine new in 1998 and it's a
"late" S/N.
Wes N7WS
--- On Wed, 4/21/10, Tom W8JI <w...@w8ji.com> wrote:
> Better yet, why are most radios made the way they are? Put
> the SSB ALC entirely in the audio system. For example we
> could split-frequency process the audio with far more
> effective results and less intermodulation or harmonic
> distortion than any type of RF clipping or
> compression. The VOMAX did that, although not nearly as well as we could do
> with a DSP system, in the 70's or 80's. We should be doing
> all the gain control and processing at audio.
>
> Trying to fix transmitter issues at the amplifier by
> wrapping the amp back into the transmitter controls just
> doesn't seem logical. RF clipping or limiting, unless it is
> gain reduction with a PIN diode attenuator, doesn't make
> much sense to me.
>
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