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 <lightdazz...@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 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
