[Elecraft] Where to put the wattmeter

[Jim Brown]

On 4/21/2023 8:40 AM, Steve L wrote:
> Rob argues we have many excellent receivers available to us today - and goes on to argue today’s transmitters are the problem  loading the bands with splatter, phase noise, key clicks and other undesirable artifacts, with Elecraft among the cleanest (and several other popular radios among the dirtiest).
> 
> Look up Rob on YouTube for several excellent presentations.

I'm happy to see that Rob has finally awakened to the transmitter 
problem, which I started banging the alarm about nine years ago.

Analysis of Noise Performance of Selected HF Transceivers  For nearly a 
decade, Rob Sherwood, NC0B, has been testing and publishing comparisons 
of the receive performance of selected transceivers, and receive 
performance has greatly improved as a result. Transmitter performance 
has been largely ignored. This document, which compares the data from 
ARRL lab product reviews, is an attempt to shed the same sort of light 
on transmitter performance, and encourage manufacturers to do better. 
NEW! September 2014  http://k9yc.com/TXNoise.pdf

And a study of one of the worst six months later. Here is a preliminary 
in-progress report on my ongoing project to measure  the Occupied 
Spectrum  of various ham rigs. This second file includes some of the 
same data, but focuses on the FTDX5000  before and after implementation 
of the September 2014 firmware upgrade. For all of these measurements, 
both of the K3s in use had the original synthesizer board. Note that 
while these reports use Power Point because it's a good way to view the 
data, they are not intended for live presentation in their current 
preliminary form.   NEW! March 2015

  http://k9yc.com/FTDX5000_Report.pdf

73, Jim K9YC