Yep! The K2 power monitor monitors peak power, which most QRP awards say should be no more than 10 watts peak envelope power (PEP) in SSB.
Your average power will be less, depending upon the amount of speech compression you select in the MENU. More compression will produce greater average output power. That's the whole point of compression. I'm not aware of any limits on compression or speech processing placed on eligibility for SSB QRP awards, just PEP. Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- Thanks, everyone. I am still working on the presumption that 5W output for CW and 10W PEP output for SSB would be acceptable for my purposes of award gathering and contesting, as I already pointed out in my initial post. I justify this even further with the fact that my antennas are mediocre at best, typically random wires or a temporary dipole at best. But my question was specifically on the K2 and how it controls its output power. So, again, I presume the K2/KAT2 power regulating circuitry guarantees that: - if I set my power level at 5W my CW key-down output power will actually be 5W - if I set my power level at 10W my SSB PEP output power will actually be 10W (avg power somewhat less) ...or relatively close to this. Right? 73 - Kristinn, TF3KX _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
