I'm very ignorant on the subject, having made exactly one PSK QSO in my life. But wouldn't propagation, antennas, etc. all have a bearing on signal strength at a given location? Dipole vs. beam makes a greater difference than 25 vs 50 watts.
On 5/1/2012 8:46 PM, Jon Perelstein wrote: > Eric KG6MZS asked why wouldn't you run more than 70w on PSK > > Because with the close spacing of signals in the various PSK sub-bands, a > signal of more than about 50watts will completely annihilate all the other > PSK signals and make that sub-band unusable for everyone else. The rule of > thumb for being polite on PSK is to operate 25-30w max. I won't claim that > there aren't some who are operating more (you Cuban stations know who you > are), but many/most of us will avoid QSOs with people who are obviously > running 50w+ > > 73s > Jon, WB2RYV -- Vic, K2VCO Fresno CA http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ ______________________________________________________________ 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
