[Elecraft] IMD and supply voltage

[Wayne Burdick]

Yes, we made sure compression was off. We gave the unit every opportunity to exhibit magic properties. Alas, it did not. 

Wayne
N6KR


On Oct 29, 2015, at 2:10 PM, Chip Stratton <lightdazzled at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting results about the Icom M-802. It is actually marketed as a "150 Watt" rig, so testing it at 100 Watts would be giving it even more "benefit of the doubt".
> 
> It is also interesting to note that Icom has disabled speech compression in the M-802 by default. Apparently, when compression is enabled the transmitter doesn't meet FCC requirements for use on the marine bands. I suspect that what this means is that the M-802 is normally driven far below 150 Watts PEP or even 100 Watts PEP when used without voice compression.
> 
> 73
> Chip
> AE5KA