[Elecraft] Help with ideal SSB contest settings

[Jim Brown]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:33:29 +0200, Maarten van Rossum wrote:

>Don't be scared to crank up the mic gain and compression setting, Only if
>you set them to the extremes you will cause trouble on the bands,

The instructions in the K3 manual are quite clear, and give great results. To 
set them most effectively, set the TXEQ for your mic and voice FIRST, with no 
compression and enough gain to get some ALC indication. In general, you want 
to turn down the bass (the lower bands) so that you're not wasting power on 
breath pops and the parts of your voice that don't contribute to 
intelligibility. Have a good listener tune you in with a wide IF bandwidth, 
and tell you when you have it right. THEN do a final setting for the mic 
gain, and dial in some Compression. For competitive audio, keep compression 
between 6 and 10dB on peaks. More gets nasty. 

73, Jim K9YC