[Elecraft] ALC implementation

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Fri Jun 28 14:50:15 EDT 2019


On 6/28/2019 11:38 AM, Brian Denley wrote:
> I have always thought that ALC is not appropriate for power control.  It’s a protection system.  Over use of ALC acts like compression.

You are absolutely right. ALC should never be used between a transceiver 
and an amplifier for power control. Likewise, for digital modes, audio 
drive level should never be used to set output power, but rather so that 
levels are within the best operating range of both computer and radio 
audio stages.

73, Jim K9YC



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