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 On Wednesday 02/05/2012 at 4:07 am, Ian White GM3SEK wrote: > > 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
