[Elecraft] Peak SSB Output vs. "Tune" output

[dalspaugh at comcast.net]

Do you have the right mic selected? If so does the mic your using required a bias to work correctly? 




73 Doug N3QW 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: brian at brianlinn.com 
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Friday, April 2, 2010 1:51:53 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: [Elecraft] Peak SSB Output vs. "Tune" output 



Been reading with some interest the recent thread about SSB output 
"coming up" after a few seconds. Different situation here with 
my K3. 

1) Tune up output is a few watts higher than power 
setting (as expected). 
2) When observing peak output on my LP-100 
wattmeter (known to work fine), the peak output is only 40-45% of power 
setting. 
3) If one really yells into the mic, the peaks will 
come up, but still not where they should be. 
4) Mic gain = 60 
5) 
Compression - 15 (any more and the audio begins to be less clean) 
6) 
Mic config setting = HI 
7) Issue exists no matter which microphone is 
being used. 
8) Audio quality is rated as good or excellent by those 
with whom I QSO. 
9) Frequency / Band does not impact the issue. 
10) AM mode output is about 40 watts. 

Any thoughts? 

73' Brian KDOHII 

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