Re: [Flexradio] NEW ALC AWESOME

2006-02-09 Thread Bill Nagle
The reworked ALC is awesome and totally transparant. It's the first time in the history of rice boxes that an alc has actually worked without massive distortion! Also, the peak power distortion on the 1 watt predriver is cleaned up. The peak power meter shows around 125 for ssb and 200 for am

Re: [Flexradio] NEW ALC AWESOME

2006-02-09 Thread Jeff Anderson
Shouldn't peak power for AM be exactly the same as SSB?In other words, if I cannot transmit more than 125 watts, peak, with SSB (to prevent amplifier distortion), then I'd think that I shouldn't be able to transmit more than 125 watts, peak, with AM (andthe AM carrier power should be 1/4 of

Re: [Flexradio] NEW ALC AWESOME

2006-02-09 Thread Eric Wachsmann - FlexRadio
Bill, Glad to hear that the new ALC is to your liking. The peak power meter is still not right as far as I can tell. AM peak should not be 200W, unless I am missing something. The Leveler is used basically to apply a very slow AGC to the microphone in order to keep the volume from dropping