[Elecraft] Why predistortion?

[Chuck MacCluer]

*The Elecraft K-Line already produces some of the cleanest, puresttransmit
signals around.*

Au contraire! I'm in a morning roundtable where four use K3Ss --- all four
have an unacceptable (only 32 dB down) popup on the opposite sideband
on certain peaks. It has always puzzled me why Elecraft, so obsessed with
received signal excellence, would settle for such flawed transmitted
signals. My Orion Mk II with predistortion is far cleaner even driving two
BLF188s.