[Elecraft] [K3] Audio circuit distortion

[David Gilbert]

So very true.  Three or four years ago a midwest ham called me during 
the NAQP SSB contest with an almost unreadable S9+10 signal. I managed 
to decipher enough of his callsign to return to him, and I told him he 
needed to back off his mic gain.  He did and it helped, and by the time 
I got him to where he was perfectly readable and not distorting any 
worse than anyone else he was down to about S8.  I told him he should 
leave it there, but I'll bet $100 he didn't.

It's a wonder some manufacturer hasn't put out a rig with knobs that go 
up to 11.

73,
Dave   AB7E



On 7/23/2013 2:25 PM, Doug Person wrote:
>  Unless you were listening to FM broadcast, how could you possibly 
> appreciate a .3% THD?  I always assumed anything less than 1% was more 
> than adequate for our kind of communications.  If we get down to this 
> level of performance, we'll need to work on the 50% or so of stations 
> that only concern themselves with output power - not audio quality.  
> There is a lot of dreadfully distorted signals on 20 meter SSB.  
> Nothing beats working a station that is s9+20 and barely 
> understandable because he has compression and mic gain pushed up so he 
> sees 1500 watts on his output meter all the time.
>
>
> 73, Doug -- K0DXV