[Elecraft] K4 Field Day report

[Dave]

W3PIE on 14.080 FT8 was splattering prettybad yesterday morning. Spikes up and down the passband. Surely an overdrive issue with audio levels.

Dave wo2x

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> On Jun 24, 2019, at 3:09 PM, David Gilbert <xdavid at cis-broadband.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> There isn't a rig on the planet that will take out actual splatter, although you MIGHT be able to filter out some of it at audio depending upon the offender's voice characteristics.  If the trash is truly within your passband at RF you are going to hear it.
> 
> Most of that occurs due to sheer ignorance on the part of the operator, but the sad thing is that there are hams out there who will intentionally overdrive their rigs in order to create "elbow room" for themselves.  On CW they do it with fast rise times to generate key clicks.  I've seen posts from guys who admit doing it.
> 
> 73,
> Dave   AB7E
> 
> 
>> On 6/24/2019 11:44 AM, Mark Goldberg wrote:
>> I'd be interested to hear how it does in the presence of close in strong
>> signals, especially SSB. I was operating a KX3 on SSB in close frequency to
>> someone that was far away, but they had all the knobs up to 11 and was
>> maybe S9+20 and about 10 kHz wide with lots of splatter. I could hear
>> anyone that came back to me but I eventually abandoned the frequency
>> because most could not hear me. 20 SSB was wall to wall with someone about
>> every 1.5 kHz or closer.
>> 
>> 73,
>> 
>> Mark
> 
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