You are assuming that everyone has the luxury of narrow roofing filters and can filter out the week and reject unwanted strong signals. most PSK stations are not blessed with a K3 and are not able to suppress strong signals. before I had a K3 2.4 was the narrowes I could do. most afordable rigs today still stop at 3khz (FT950) and some even wider. You should use as little power as possible to conduct your QSO. where I come from that is the law. using high power to conduct a PSK31 qso is rarely necessary. most other PSK users are running less than 30 W and if you can hear them you probably don't need 100+ watts to talk back. I agree that it is needed in some cases but one should only shout when you need to and talk normal or even whisper if you can.
David Moes VE3DVY > > The reason why a strong signal will "annihilate all the other PSK > signals" is that most users are trying to receive an entire 2.5kHz > bandwidth in one gulp. This means that even one strong signal within > that bandwidth will activate the AGC and drive all the other signals > down. > > Regrettably most PSK users don't understand what is happening, so they > have to rationalize it into simpler terms like "It's a crime to be > loud." ______________________________________________________________ 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
