[Elecraft] KPA100 recommended max power for digital modes?

[Jack Chomley]

Don,

I go hide on the WARC bands for PSK31 these days :-) Too many big guns on the other bands,  I have a hard time trying to filter them out, my receiver always gets swamped!

73,

Jack VK4JRC

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> On 23 Feb 2014, at 8:26 am, Don Wilhelm <w3fpr at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Doug,
> 
> While low power may have been the recommendation, I started in PSK31 in 2000 when I had only a K2/10.  I ran it in the 5 to 10 watt range.  When I revealed my power level, many ops asked why I was running only that much power.
> 
> So the "push for higher power" has been going on since shortly after the beginning of PSK31.
> 
> While I do use it occasionally, that factor and the preponderance of "hello, brag sheet, goodbye" QSOs has soured me on the mode.  It used to be a lot of keyboard to keyboard ragchew QSOs, but that is rare these days.  No opportunity to get to know something about the ham you are in QSO with.
> 
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
> 
>> On 2/22/2014 5:05 PM, Doug VE3VS wrote:
>> 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.
> 
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