[Elecraft] K3: Latest Beta FW - Vox, TX Gate and Notch observations in ss

[Matt Zilmer]

If your TX signal fits into the requisite bandwidth, this complaint
doesn't matter because you are not creating off-freq energy.  If
another station's RX equipment can't cope with that it is not the
problem of the transmitter or its operator.  Let the guy with the
receiver problem deal with it.

The topic has come up numerous times before.  It never goes anywhere,
because only K3 owners inhabit this list (well - mostly).

This is not a callous or ruthless attitude, just a reality.  I also
hear many TX'ing stations spraying RF all over the place.  One local
covers 100 KHz with buckshot all over that range!  Be assured your K3
is uber-clean on TX.

I don't work for Elecraft, but yes, I drank the Kool Aid.

Just wait until you're 400 Hz from some bellyaching CW big gun,
running your puny 100W and not actually noticing him, AND working all
the unheard DX out from under him.  Send him a box of Kleenex and a
six pack of Bud.  Then tell him to buy a K3...

Hey, maybe he's running a clean TX.  He just needs a better receiver.
Anyway it's not your problem.

matt W6NIA



On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:22:36 -0500, you wrote:

>> One bad thing about owning a K3 is that you can get very
>> close to other contestants on a crowded band and, if they
>> have a clean transmitter, not know that they are even there.
>>  While running with the 1.8 filter on and the DSP tight, I
>> could find holes within busy bands to attempt runs in and
>> had several complaints from adjecent stations, both above
>> and below which I simply COULD NOT HEAR.  Most of these guys
>> were running high power... And I was running the K3
>> barefoot.
>
>
>Lu -
>
>One important thing to remember is that, while you're cranked down all
>nice and narrow on RECEIVE, you're still transmitting through the 2.7
>or 2.8 kHz filters, so your TRANSMITTED bandwidth is quite a bit wider
>than your RECEIVING bandwidth...
>
>73,
>Steve
>NN4X
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>One bad thing about owning a K3 is that you can get very
>close to other contestants on a crowded band and, if they
>have a clean transmitter, not know that they are even there.
> While running with the 1.8 filter on and the DSP tight, I
>could find holes within busy bands to attempt runs in and
>had several complaints from adjecent stations, both above
>and below which I simply COULD NOT HEAR.  Most of these guys
>were running high power... And I was running the K3
>barefoot.
>
>Maybe a solution to our band overcrowding is to require that
>all contestants use K3's!  :)
>
>Lu Romero - W4LT
>K3 # 3192
>
>
>
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