[ICOM] IC-718 / PSK31 / "phase noise"

[Jim Miller]

PSK31 doesn't want high power.  All you do is splatter and destroy the band.
Keep your power below 25 watts, turn off your compressor and keep the mic
gain LOW.  All these will make for a clean signal from the radio that will
create the psk31 output you (and everybody else) wants to hear.

73, Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D C *Mac* Macdonald" <k2gkk at hotmail.com>
To: <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:37 AM
Subject: RE: [ICOM] IC-718 / PSK31 / "phase noise"


> Overdriving of the rigs by the PSK-31 equipment?
>
> 763 - Mac, K2GKK/5
> Oklahoma City, OK
>
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Steve Lewis <n8tfd at one.net>
> Reply-To: ICOM Reflector <icom at mailman.qth.net>
> To: icom at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [ICOM] IC-718 / PSK31 / "phase noise"
> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:29:46 -0400
>
> So we were testing out some Field Day radios and antennas tonight.
>
> We even put a mil-spec radio (SG-2000) on as the PSK31 rig...with the hope
> that it would be less "noisy" than others.
>
> No matter what we do -- our IC-718 gets "blasted" by phase noise across
> several bands, whether the PSK31 transmitter is IC-706 or SGC's.  (Other
> radios hear it, but this one really gets pounded.)
>
> It seems like a lot of people do PSK31 @ Field Day and don't report
issues.
> Are we missing something?
>
> This is on-topic since the Icom radio is the "victim".  :-)
>
> -73-
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