Sidebars are a visual indication of signal distortion .. not the power level being transmitted. You have a signal *quality* issue which is most often caused by overdriving .
Don K7FJ On 4/30/2012 11:06 AM, KC6CNN wrote: > I am now up and running on psk31. > I had my power set to 25watts and all is well. If I try to increase it to 30 > watts, people say I have side bars. OK not sure what that is, but running 25 > watts. > I see stations that say they are running 50 and even a 100 watts. > How are they able to run so much power and I get the side bar things at 30 > watts. > > Guess I should ask also what are sidebars. lol > > Thanks > Gerald - KC6CNN > > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/question-for-psk31-users-tp7514424.html > Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
