[Elecraft] K3/100 input voltage and TX IMD

[R. Kevin Stover]

It's simple,

The manual says this.

"Note: The K3 is capable of up to 120 W output on some bands. However, 
IMD and spurious products are specified at 100 W. This is the 
recommended maximum."

You run your rig out of spec don't complain to Elecraft about it's 
performance. Maybe that particular sentence should be in a bigger font 
and bold. Obviously it isn't getting read.

Of course that wouldn't do a thing about those folks who run their rigs 
"all knobs full right".


Don Wilhelm wrote:
> Ian,
> 
> Your comment is worthy of consideration, but OTOH, I am of the 'old 
> school' - amateur radio operators traditionally have not been bound by 
> power limits imposed by the firmware, and many would be quite displeased 
> if it were limited in the K3.
> 
> We are supposed to share the bands as gentlemen and operate our 
> equipment in such a manner as not to annoy our fellow hams.  That does 
> require a knowledge of our equipment, especially its limitations.
> 
> I am fully aware that there are more and more 'appliance operators' on 
> the ham bands who do not know the limits of their transmitters, and the 
> only thing they seem to understand is the upper limit of the power 
> knob.  There is a name for those operators - I call them "LIDS".  While 
> that term is usually applied to those who practice bad operating 
> protocol, I choose to apply it also to those who operate their equipment 
> improperly.  RTFM is a requirement to know your equipment, but then I 
> was schooled as a young engineer and made to understand that is a VERY 
> important task
> 
> 73,
> Don W3FPR

> 

-- 
R. Kevin Stover, ACØH