[Elecraft] OT P3 question

[Keith Heimbold]

I have a ham that lives within .5 miles of me who works primarily on VHF bands and has been written about in QST for his 6m prowess in contests. When he operates he takes up 25 kc on 6m and basically wipes out the ssb portion of the band and sometimes even more down into the top of CW portion.

As he is a famous vhf guy in the area i brought this up to some folks at hro and they say it must be the front end issue with my K3. I feel for your situation as I doubt there is much that I can do since he is so close and come contest time on 6m I don't even go on the band.

Thank goodness he is not an HF guy.

Keith
AK6ZZ

Sent from my iPhone please excuse typos

On Feb 28, 2013, at 7:46 PM, "Sam Morgan" <k5oai.sam at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a couple of hams living .7miles and 1.3 miles from me.
> On my P3 they both appear 6-8+ kc wide when viewed using the Peak function.
> They both run different amps varying in power from 400w to 800w
> 
> I have spoken with them over the phone and while watching their signals
> they are able to cut down their audio to where they are only 3kc wide.
> One is still bumping S9 +40 and the other S9 +60 on the K3.
> 
> They seem to think their audio is to low at that point,
> even though they are still given good reports out 300-600mi (on 80m)
> 
> My question(s)
> they seem to think the only reason they appear that wide is because they are over powering my K3s front end. I think they are over driving their rigs audio.
> 
> any comments on what could be happening here?
> Is it my K3/P3's fault they look that wide,
> or are they just wanting to see their meters swing up higher than they should,
> and so are actually over driving their rigs?
> 
> TIA
> -- 
> 
> GB & 73
> K5OAI
> Sam Morgan
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