What is your compression level set at? I have mine set at 20 and I have 100% more "talk power" as indicated by an average indicating analog power/SWR meter than my two ICOM transceivers. I am also finding that with the K3 I am exceptionally successful in pileups in spite of my 100W and a dipole.
AB2TC - Knut Laurent HAAS - F6FVY wrote: > > Hi > > We are the proud owners of 6 K3/100 used at the FY5KE contest station. > These radios has been delivered around mid-2008 and their serial numbers > are in the 012xx range. > > After using mostly these rigs for SSB contesting in FY5KE or in other > places, we are still facing a lack of "dynamics", "punch", > "penetration", "power", whatever you call it. In other words, when > comparing this rig to our radios we previously used (TS-850), with the > same microphone (Heil HC-4 element) and the same output RF power, the K3 > is clearly way behind in term of "average power" we can read on the Bird > wattmeter wired on its RF output. Even if observing the wattmeter needle > is not a very scientific measurement (we admit it), various comparative > reports on the air do confirm our feeling. > > We spent time on various available settings (mic gain, compressor level, > etc), with no luck, excepted a very distorted and awful audio to roughly > reach the same level, which is not acceptable. > > After a little Googling, it appears that other contesters suffers the > same issue (e.g. www.bavarian-contest-club.de/projects/K3_english.pdf > pages 6 and 10). > > Some questions : > > - Do other contesters (or not) here have noted the same problem ? > - What settings did you modified (or not) to achieve a good result ? > - Is there any possible HW or SW upgrade we aren't aware of, that could > help us ? > > We must confess we are currently preparing our next contest season, and > we are seriously considering reselling these radios and bring others > Japanese models if we can't solve this problem, despite we really > appreciate them in many other aspects (size, weight, etc.). > > 73 > > For the FY5KE/Win-Test team, > > Larry - F6FVY > <snip> > -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-SSB-modulation-tp5442219p5442642.html Sent from the [K3] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
