[Elecraft] Re: ESSB Works Well

[Dave G4AON]

It's easy to turn ESSB on/off by assigning it to one of the "PF" keys. 
You still have to toggle it on/off with the "1" key then exit the menu, 
but it's fairly quick and easy.

I would welcome a test with another ESSB station to try mine. I find a 
few AM stations around but hear very few ESSB QSOs. The K3 sounds superb 
at 2.8 KHz bandwidth, so with my deep voice I am not sure ESSB would be 
of any real use, but I would like to at least give it a try.

73 Dave, G4AON
K3/100 #80
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But you will be wasting power generating frequencies that are more or less
wasted on the station you are working, and which could be causing QRM or
simply taking up space that someone else could be using. In my opinion, it's
only appropriate to use ESSB when you know that the other station is also
equipped to receive it, on a band that is quiet enough that the wider signal
is not preventing someone else from having a QSO. From that standpoint, it
is a pity that it has to be enabled or disabled by going into the CONFIG
menu, because that seems to imply that it is a setting that people will
either use most of the time or not use at all, rather than something you
enable (perhaps using MODE ALT) for a particular contact when circumstances
permit, and then turn off when that contact has ended.

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Julian, G4ILO