[Elecraft] KX3 DX

[Clay Autery]

That was unnecessary....  It was neither asserted or even remotely 
suggested that 5 W or 100W could be made to "sound like 1 KW"...

IN FACT, power level has little to do with HOW something sounds...  
volume?  yes, quality?  Not nearly as much.

The POINT that I and Jim (more succinctly) were trying to make it that 
not ALL 5 W signals are equal....  not by any stretch of the imagination 
of by any level of desire.

All things being equal... a PROPERLY formed 5W signal will be "heard" 
(more accurately "understood") by a larger "audience" than a POORLY 
formed 5 W signal....
And a properly formed signal will likely be understood by more folks 
than a poorly formed signal pushed out at higher power.

PS -

Not sure why, but there seems to be a lot of cranky folks spoiling for 
an argument/fight lately...

Chill out, guys!

73,

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Clay Autery, KY5G
(318) 518-1389

On 20-Aug-18 13:35, Curt Nixon wrote:
> So if I utilize these same compression and hpf adjustments and 
> equalization my 100W will sound like 1KW??  maybe on paper..
>
> KU8L
>
> On 08/20/18 2:12 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
>> On 8/20/2018 7:37 AM, K3ICH wrote:
>>> As the saying goes, "Five watts is five watts".
>>
>> The saying is an oversimplification. The KX3 includes two important 
>> tools to increase talk power on SSB -- TX equalization, which can be 
>> set to emphasize speech intelligibility and minimize power wasted 
>> below 400 Hz, and amplitude compression and peak limiting, which 
>> brings quieter speech sounds closer to the level of louder ones.  
>> When set for about 10 dB of compression on voice peaks, it makes 5 w 
>> the equivalent of 50W, and the TXEQ settings add 3 dB, making 5W the 
>> equivalent of 100W.
>>
>> These tools, which are called "audio signal processing," have been 
>> used in broadcasting since at least the '50s. They are also built 
>> into the K3, K3S, and KX2.
>>
>> 73, Jim K9YC
>>