Most modulation limiters prevent distortion. However, the one in the SR-94HPC simply prevents good performance. After reading people rave about this radio "having the strong AM audio Stryker is known for", I bought one. What a disappointment. It has the strongest modulation limiter is more like it.
This lack of strong modulation was not acceptable so I looked around for a schematic to no avail. When that didn't work I pulled the board and tried tracing the circuit from the mic input looking for the attenuation transistor. This board may be three layers because lots of traces disappear from the top of the board to the bottom. Like connections must be happening in the middle.
When that failed, out came the scope to trace the audio from transistor to transistor. Luckily, the desired one is on the top of the board. On the extreme front edge of of the board to the right of the white ribbon cable is a transistor. Two legs face the front edge of the board while one faces the rear. It's the leg on the right front edge of the board we are concerned with.
Solder a 470 ohm resistor to the pin on the bottom, right side of the transistor and ground the other side of the resistor. You could use the screw in the right front corner of the board to ground this side of the resistor. This loads the drive triggering the transistor to conduct and was the safest way I could find to increase the range of both AMC controls without defeating the AMC. It will distort if defeated.
Now the radio screams like 45 watts PEP should. Plenty of range on the controls so they can be set on the scope without distortion. If someone wants to post a detailed picture of this area of the board, I'll point out the location of this transistor a bit better. You should remove the ribbon cable and front panel when installing this resistor otherwise the soldering iron may burn both.
