[Elecraft] K3 Power-hunting on FT8

[Jim Brown]

On 7/20/2023 2:16 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
> I've recently started operating FT8, and on advice from other K3 users, 
> have been adjusting the power slider in WSJT-X to a level just short of 
> or just into the first flickers of ALC.  I did this because I was 
> advised that setting the slider for 4 or 5 bars of ALC generated junk in 
> the FT8 passband.  I am running the K3 in Data A mode

I saw that post, and suspected at the time that you got bum advice. 
That's why it's power-hunting. I'd go back to what Elecraft says in 
their manual.

73, Jim K9YC