[Elecraft] [Elecraft K3] ALC readout

R. Kevin Stover rkstover at mchsi.com
Wed Feb 2 13:24:52 EST 2011


Four solid bars with a barely flickering 5th.
The first four bars are a VU system of sorts. Once the 5th bar more
than flickers occasionally your getting some ALC action and need to
back off a skosh (scientific term of the day).

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:33:52 -0500
"David Robertson" <darjar at comcast.net> wrote:

> Greetings everyone,
> I am a bit confused about the exact number of bars in the ALC meter
> that is used for VU.  Both 4 bars and 5 bars have been mentioned.
> When I am on PSK I run the audio on 5 bars with no report of
> distortion.Setting the line input level to less than 5 bars have
> resulted in a relative long period of time for the power out of the
> K3, where as with 5 bars the K3's power out sets up very quickly.
> 
> 73
> Dave KD1NA




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