Digital modes lend themselves to lower power contacts successfully. It gets messy for all when a station jumps in with excessive power. I'm seeing more and more stations with poor to very poor quality signals. It takes very little effort to be loud, but requires more effort and skill to be good.
Bob, K4TAX Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 4, 2017, at 7:04 PM, Rick Bates (WA6NHC) <[email protected]> wrote: > > Pffft. > > Use only enough power to allow the completion of the contact. Even if it’s > legal limit. > > It’s a common misconception. > > Rick WA6NHC > > Smell Czech happens > >> On Nov 4, 2017, at 4:59 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 20 watts is a lot of power on PSK-31. >> >> 10 watts is a lot of power on PSK-31. >> >> 73 -- Lynn >> >>> On 11/4/2017 3:55 PM, K1FFX wrote: >>> I started running some 100% duty cycle operation with my KPA100 (PSK31 and >>> Olivia). I was running 20 watts .. >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
