It ain't you. They squeeze in to a QRO signal on a 40m 5 element wide-spaced quad on a 220 foot catenary at NY4A. It has to be the bandwidth. When I used an MP out there, people above and below used to complain.
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Al Lorona <[email protected]> wrote: > Several years ago when the K2 modification was created by Wayne to implement a > raised cosine keying filter I installed it and both ran simulations and made > measurements of the resulting waveform, which agreed very closely. In fact, I > liked the result so much that I duplicated the circuit and modified my Omni 6 > with it. I just sold that rig and feel good that the next owner will put a > very > clean-keying rig out there in the future. > > In private conversations with several good contesters over the years I have > the > general impression that although none of them would intentionally modify their > rigs to splatter (neither on CW nor SSB), they regard a clicking/splattering > transmitter as creating the happy side effect of a virtual guard band on > either > side of them in a contest. > > I also notice that whenever I am running with the K2 or K3 other contesters > tend > to crowd me just a tad closer than I'm used to on one side or the other. It > annoys me. An unhappy side effect of exceptionally clean keying? Naw, more > likely just my weak, little-pistol signal! > > Al W6LX > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
