[Elecraft] Speech Processors

Wed Jan 29 15:31:01 2003

Watch out for those long dashes, Dan!   <:}

Back in the "old days" guys would make finals out of 6L6s inverted in
a pan of water or even transformer oil and wire up as many in parallel
as they could manage - this was usually on 160 meters.

The caution was to avoid holding the key down too long or the water
would start bubbling from the heat rise!

No, I was referring to the use of substantial amounts of r-f
clipping - 15 dB or more - which can really place a burden on the
final amp unless it is designed for continuous operation at that
higher average power level. Clipping both raises the average power -
as much as 10 dB or more - and can increase the duty cycle of speech
to the point of being almost a key-down situation.

73/72, George
Amateur Radio W5YR -  the Yellow Rose of Texas
In the 57th year and it just keeps getting better!
Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13qe
K2 #489  IC-765 #2349 IC-756 PRO  #2121 IC-756 PRO2 #3235

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Barker" <[email protected]>
To: "Elecraft" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 6:46 AM
Subject: FW: [Elecraft] Speech Processors

> Strain? Yeah. I guess all we CW operators should quit, and go to SSB
to
> "relieve" our finals<g>.
>
> Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456