Re: [Elecraft] KX2, KX3, and supply voltage vs. power output

2016-05-24 Thread Jim Brown
On Tue,5/24/2016 12:56 PM, Wes wrote: Fortunately CW is neither an unmodulated carrier nor is it 100% modulation by a square wave. Dots with no waveform shaping would be a square wave; dashes are never a square wave. Keyed CW is none of the above. OK, 100% modulation of a carrier by a

Re: [Elecraft] KX2, KX3, and supply voltage vs. power output

2016-05-24 Thread Wes
Wow two experts and they're both wrong. Fortunately CW is neither an unmodulated carrier nor is it 100% modulation by a square wave. Dots with no waveform shaping would be a square wave; dashes are never a square wave. Keyed CW is none of the above. On 5/24/2016 9:37 AM, Jim Brown wrote:

Re: [Elecraft] KX2, KX3, and supply voltage vs. power output

2016-05-24 Thread Wayne Burdick
On May 24, 2016, at 9:37 AM, Jim Brown wrote: > On Tue,5/24/2016 8:23 AM, Wayne Burdick wrote: >> In CW mode, there's no issue with doing this, since it's just an unmodulated >> carrier. > > Not true, Wayne. CW is 100% modulation of a carrier by a square wave, the

Re: [Elecraft] KX2, KX3, and supply voltage vs. power output

2016-05-24 Thread Jim Brown
On Tue,5/24/2016 8:23 AM, Wayne Burdick wrote: In CW mode, there's no issue with doing this, since it's just an unmodulated carrier. Not true, Wayne. CW is 100% modulation of a carrier by a square wave, the square wave includes harmonics, which produce IMD. THAT'S what clicks are. You

[Elecraft] KX2, KX3, and supply voltage vs. power output

2016-05-24 Thread Wayne Burdick
"Charly w6...@hotmail.com [KX3]" wrote: > > Regarding 10 watt operation with the KX2, I read operation on only 5 watts is > recommended with internal 2.6 amp battery because of intermodulation ---but > later I Read 10 watts is Ok-- Of course with xternal battery