[Elecraft] KPA1500 reduces power as it gets warmer?

[Bill Frantz]

It’s actually better than that. FT8 only transmits for 12.6 seconds giving a duty cycle of 42%. The 7.4 seconds left over are used for decode so you can have an answer to send in the next transmit slot.

73 Bill AE6JV


> On Jun 5, 2022, at 11:18:23, Ken K6MR <k6mr at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> Worst case duty cycle on FT8 is never more than 50%. This assumes that you are transmitting every odd or even time slot. Very few stations are able to keep that rate for very long. So I would bet the actual duty cycle is more like 30% to 40% in actual use.