[Elecraft] Ham Qualifications, Customer Service

[Wayne Burdick]

Hi Jim,

There's always room for improvement, and thanks for your observations. In general I defer to your audio expertise. 

Perhaps, as in the past, you and I can debate the finer points over a bottle of red at Visalia. Meanwhile, here's how it currently works:

- The CMP knob establishes an upper bound on the compression algorithm (0-30 dB). 

- When you speak, the CMP shows you whether the mic gain is sufficient to fully hit the desired level. 

- Typically this happens when ALC is in the vicinity of 4 or 5 bars.

This is consistent with all of our transceivers, and as far as I know it has proven effective and easy to use. Just crank CMP to the desired level and shoot the fish in the barrel.

73,
Wayne
N6KR


> On Jun 29, 2022, at 1:10 PM, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> 
> On 6/29/2022 9:39 AM, Ed Cole wrote:
>> Note on SSB compression, I've run at 20 with no complaints of distortion or splatter.
> 
> Dial readout is the WRONG way to set compression -- it's meaningless. The RIGHT way is to adjust COMP for a METER reading of 10 dB on voice peaks.
> 
> 73, Jim K9YC