[Elecraft] K3 - SSB Carrier Offset Menu Item?

[Geoffrey Downs]

This is my first posting but I have been watching the reflector with interest for some time. After good experiences building and using a T1 and an XG2 and getting to feel that my FT1000 MP Field - which has given me good service - has an ageing rx design that sometimes struggles to cope with today's noisy low band condx, I talked myself into ordering a K3 kit in time to get into the first production batch. Like others I am to say the least very much looking forward to receiving it - all the indications are that it will be an excellent transceiver.

In the meantime I have a question about K3 tx audio which I have not been able to find the answer to on the reflector or FAQs but forgive me if I have missed it. My main interest at present is ssb dx on 80m and (obviously) it's important to have clean tx audio with punch, so I take trouble to try to set it up right.  At the moment I get good results with a Heil HC4 and the Field which of course has a processor and various menu settings that affect the tx audio including items for "carrier offset" for tx and for the processor (both USB and LSB). I have found that small adjustments to the "carrier offset" items can add to the tx audio punch and clarity without creating splatter or other adverse effects and others have found so too. I like what I have read in the FAQs and on the reflector about the K3 mic gain, the processor, the equaliser and use of the HC4, but I wonder if in the K3 there are also menu items for "carrier offset" or equivalent that would have a similar effect to the Yaesu menu items? Or maybe the equaliser will enable that effect to be achieved. Any thoughts would be welcome.

73 to all

Geoff
G3UCK