[Elecraft] KPA100 recommended max power for digital modes?

[Doug VE3VS]

Hi Glenn,
I started using PSK31 many, many years ago, when it was first introduced by
a ham in the UK. It was made very clear to operators that minimum power
should always be used for a QSO.  It was suggested that more than 10 watts
was excessive. As mentioned in one of the other replies, many transmissions
can fall within the receiver passband when using this mode. If you, or
anyone else uses much higher power, that strongest signal will "take over"
the passband on most receivers, spoiling other QSOs that are going on at the
time.

I have noticed over the past five years or more there has been a steady
increase in the power being used by thoughtless or unknowing operators. As a
result of this power creep, I have drifted away from a mode that I once
thoroughly enjoyed.

With your KX3, you should not normally need an amp to use PSK31.

Doug, VE3VS




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