Hi All, I have studied both manuals. I think I know how to tune up the ALS-600 for CW, but not sure of how to do it with SSB especially with external ALC.
I would like to get about 500 Watts out with SSB for my MARS work. It seems I need to set the ALC to just kick in at about maximum power. I think it is good to use the ALC feature since K3 users have mentioned power spikes out of the K3 at times, (although I think others on this list have said to stay away from the ALC, but I can't find the emails). The question I have is how to determine the K3 drive necessary to get the 500 Watts out of the ALS-600? I don't think whistling is a good procedure, but maybe it is. I am thinking that the ALC concern with many here is that it is sometimes used to greatly reduce the drive coming out of the exciter to give a lot of voice compression, and if the ALC should fail, full exciter power may go to the amp. Like setting the K3 to 100 Watts out and using the external ALC to really limit it to 50 Watts. I am happy with the small amount of speech compression I have set on the K3 so I don't want to use the ALC for that. Any comments are appreciated. Steve, W2MY, AAR6CX Corpus Christi, TX ______________________________________________________________ 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
