Army: I do not find this unusual at all. I often find that by organizing my thoughts enough to ask the question I often answer it myself and usually it is after I have submitted the question to others. If I could go back and count the "never minds", it would be worth quite a bit of bandwidth. I love peer review. Others hate it but this phenomenon sold me on transparency and openness ages ago after I worked for years under a different set of rules. It just works.
Bob N4HY Army Curtis - AE5P wrote: > It never seems to fail. As soon as I get to what I think is a deadend, and > break down and send a question to a forum, I manage to work things out on my > own. I have a new LP-100 microprocessor wattmeter (http://telepostinc.com/ ) > which will very accurately indicate true PEP output power up to 54 MHz. I > hooked that up to the output of the 50 MHz amplifier, and then into a dummy > load. I found that there is indeed very good correlation between the steady > state output levels using the tone signal generator built into the SDR > software, and the peak power levels from transmitting speech in SSB. So, it > looks like using the built in signal generator function is the correct > approach to setting RF levels on transmit. > > I've set up some compression and compandor levels per the KB, but am very > much open to further suggestions. Will be doing a series of "on-air" tests > with a friend of mine locally to get some feedback on audio quality as these > parameters are varied. > > When I get all finished with this little project (assuming everything works > in the field during the January VHF contest), I'll try and write something > up on what I've done, and how I've done it in the hopes it may help someone > else do much the same. As others on here have noted, this has got to be one > of the finest radios available today, and it just keeps getting better. > > 73, > > Army Curtis - AE5P > Nacogdoches, the oldest town in Texas > > > -- AMSAT Director and VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR WG Chair "If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. " - Dietrich Bonhoffer _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
