5 watts on PSK will work if you are in an empty section on the waterfall. In a crowded situation with strong signals nearby, you will be stepped on and obliterated by the strong signal. Certain DX stations are notorious for overdriving the waterfall and wiping out other signals. You are better off calling CQ in location away from nearby strong signals. At 5 watts your printing on the waterfall can be faint depending on propagation. I did get Hawaii once on PSK with my K2. My luck with PSK has always been better at 25-30 watts. That is just the nature of this mode. At QRP power, CW is much more efficient. Make sure you have enough drive to just trigger the ALC circuit. You are also better off decoding the PSK signal with Fldigi or DM780 - just a better PSK experience with the macros and all.
Ariel NY4G Sent from my iPad On Jan 11, 2013, at 4:44 PM, w2b...@aol.com wrote: > I have had my KX3 about a month now. I have never worked digital modes > before. It sounded very easy in the manual. So I listened to a few PSK31 > stations. Wow you have to read fast! I hear CQ's and try to reply. No luck! > Try > a few CQ's myself. No replies. I must be doing something wrong. I don't have > any trouble making contacts on CW. I tried both 40 and 20 meters. Help! > 72 George/W2BPI > ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ 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
