If your supply voltage is too low for a given application, I suggest dropping TX power. In the case of PSK31, which works well at very low S/N ratios, I suspect 50 W would have worked just as well as 100 W for 99% of contacts.
73, Wayne N6KR On Jun 28, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Elecraft K3 wrote: > I would not want to be running an IMD sensitive mode like PSK with > 11 V. > > We came close at our location a few times between generator runs - > 11.3 V or so and my outboard IMD meter still showed an acceptable > signal - IMD -25db or less. > > 73 de Eric, KG6MZS > > On Jun 28, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Wayne Burdick wrote: > >> The K3/100 needs 11 V to make 100 W on most bands (and higher on some >> bands), but it should not shut down completely until you hit that 9.0 >> V level. The radio will automatically reduce power (or drop >> completely >> out of QRO mode, bypassing the KPA3) as required. ______________________________________________________________ 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
