[Amps] Alpha 9500 vs. Acom 2000A questions

Jim Thomson jim.thom at telus.net
Tue Dec 6 10:06:10 EST 2016


Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 09:56:48 -0500
From: "Paul Christensen" <w9ac at arrl.net>
To: <amps at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] Alpha 9500 vs. Acom 2000A questions

Correction.  The IMD improvement is closer to 20-25 dB for vacuum tube
amplifiers.

http://www.n3sh.org/Tech%20Section/PureSignal_final_selection.pdf

>"NR0V's pre-distortion algorithm can clean-up most any dirty amp by 10-15
dB when the amp is included in the correction loop."  

Paul, W9AC

##  On page 39 of the above power point presentation...it sez...
... Probably difficult for modes such as SSB and AM.... 

##  Does this concept work on ssb or not ??  It appears all the various
tests were done using a steady state 2 tone signal. 

Jim  VE7RF



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