[1000mp] Interface to Collins 30S1

[Pete Smith]

At 04:58 AM 1/7/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I wonder if Yaesu knows what a source follower is. I'm not impressed
>with their internal ALC. here's a little blurb on ALC. Six paragraphs
>down, 
>
>http://www.hamelectronics.com/k1deu/pages/ham/projects/ft-1k/ft-1k_index.html
>
>Paul Baldock wrote:
>> 
>> Has anybody interfaced their FT1000MP MKV with the Collins 30S1 Linear?.
>> 
>> The Collins 30S1 ALC seems too high impedance to drive the 30K Ohms of the
>> Yaesu. I've tried a buffer but get strange results.
>> 
>> It was "plug and play" with my TS930.

This is kinda mystifying.  Seems to me that if the ALC voltage provided by
an amplifier from the 50s was anything like correct for a solid-state
transceiver from the 90s (or the 80s for that matter), it would be nothing
but pure luck.

73, Pete N4ZR

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