[Elecraft] KX3 DX

[Curt Nixon]

Well..he DID use the term "equivalent".....

I get it, but you know what it will sound like if everyone starts 
crankin on that compression knob  :)

I agree with everything else you just said BTW

Curt

On 08/20/18 3:02 PM, Clay Autery wrote:
> 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,
>
> ______________________
> 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
>>>
>
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