[Elecraft] K2 vs K1 for strong station resistance?

[Dave]

Peter

Two issues... (1) it's not always your receiver that's the problem,
transmitters can be "wide" with synthesiser noise sidebands. (2) Even at
ranges in excess of a quarter of a mile signals on the same band appear to
be tens of KHz wide when listening on my K2 - transmitter in question TS570
plus 400 Watt linear.

The usual arrangement is to work different bands with well spaced antennas.

Dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Wollan" <wollan@mayo.edu>
To: <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 6:30 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] K2 vs K1 for strong station resistance?


> This Field Day, I set up my K1 to get the solar-power bonus for our club
> (W0MXW), and tried it on several bands.  Had fairly minimal success in
> getting heard, probably because of the antenna, but I was surprised at
> how seriously it was affected by the nearby QRO stations.  If any of the
> other stations (kilowatt or 100-watt) was transmitting on the same band,
> even way at the other end, the K1's receive was muted and distorted, to
> the point of making copy difficult.  The various antennas were not
> oriented to reduce interference -- I'm sure that would have been
> helpful.
>
> My questions:  Is this just a fact of life for radios, that you can only
> have one radio per band at a FD setup (if it's QRO)?  Is it a limitation
> of the K1, or maybe my K1?  And, is the K2 enough better in this respect
> that it could reasonably be expected to be used on, say, 20m CW while a
> nearby kilowatt station is on 20m SSB?