Try hooking up to a dummy load or such rather than an antenn to get his
signal to a normal level say S9 at your end. see what it looks like
then. If he is still wide then you know for sure. send him some
captures or pictures of the screen. I have a fellow ham a block
away. when we have a net on 10m he usually pushing close to about
s9+60. I dont have a P3 yet but if I go up or down 3 or 4 KC I dont
hear any splatter from him he is using an FT857 and no amp. proving
that the K3 here handles it just fine.
Its interesting at field day how signals from other rigs effect
things. I run CW on my K3 on the same band as others on SSB. Ive never
heard the kenwood TS440sat and nor could he hear me. the Old Icom not
sure of the model. I hear some faint splatter only on 20m. he could
not hear me. the FT101 was impossible regardless of band or antenna
all I could here was S9_10 hiss if I was on his ban when he squeezed the
mic. He argued with me that there was no way it was his rig at fault
and that the K3 just couldn't handle it. Pride often gets in the way
I guess. to avoid what was probably phase noise I Just calmly said
fine and never worked the same band as him. This year there will be
no FT101. I wish we could have all K3s
David Moes
dm...@nexicom.net
VE3DVY
On 2/28/2013 10:46 PM, Sam Morgan wrote:
I have a couple of hams living .7miles and 1.3 miles from me.
On my P3 they both appear 6-8+ kc wide when viewed using the Peak
function.
They both run different amps varying in power from 400w to 800w
I have spoken with them over the phone and while watching their signals
they are able to cut down their audio to where they are only 3kc wide.
One is still bumping S9 +40 and the other S9 +60 on the K3.
They seem to think their audio is to low at that point,
even though they are still given good reports out 300-600mi (on 80m)
My question(s)
they seem to think the only reason they appear that wide is because
they are over powering my K3s front end. I think they are over driving
their rigs audio.
any comments on what could be happening here?
Is it my K3/P3's fault they look that wide,
or are they just wanting to see their meters swing up higher than they
should,
and so are actually over driving their rigs?
TIA
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