Ed, Haven’t seen a response from him yet, but he may be taking about 160 meters. From what I have read, that may be an acceptable thing on that band, given QSB, band conditions, and antenna limitations.
Jim / W6JHB > On Oct 17, 2018, at 1:34 PM, Edward R Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bob, > > A question about your statement that you run 400w in digital modes (assuming > you mean FT8, etc. and not RTTY). That seems pretty extreme. > > I pretty much ignore HF usage as I am not on HF very much (primarily an > eme'er on 6m+). But back at the beginnings of psk-31 I built a HB interface* > for my FT-847 and did a bit of 14.070 operating (with a dipole). I was > recommended to not exceeding 25w (or 25% full power). Everyone seemed to do > quite well on psk-31 with low power and some ran at QRP (<5w). > > I do not get why I hear of running high power digital when 10% would > communicate easily. You may remonstrate me for running 2m-eme at 1500w on > JT-65 but the path loss on 2m-eme is 254 dB+ and contacts are made over a > half-million mile path. Certainly not encountered by terrestrial HF users. > > Not picking on you personally, but you made the statement so figure maybe > would reply. Just curious. > > 73, Ed - KL7UW > * that I/F later was used for JT-65 on eme 15 years ago. Now use my K3 > directly connected. > > Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 16:59:15 -0500 > From: Bob McGraw K4TAX <[email protected]> > To: "Dauer, Edward" <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPA500 Clicks & Pops > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I do run 400 watts or so on digital modes. Issues are not really noted on > SSB or CW modes. > > I've set the Fan Ctr to 2 and 3 and still noted the issue > > Was recently showing my K Line to some hams friends. They commented rather > negatively on the point. > > Bob, K4TAX > > > 73, Ed - KL7UW > http://www.kl7uw.com > Dubus-NA Business mail: > [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]
