I had a very good 'ham radio' weekend, Saturday, I had a long QSO on 80 meters with the K2 on SSB, it did great at 15 watts out! I hooked up a half decent dynamic microphone and was told the K2 sounded good, not ESSB but nice.
Today, I was on AM with the homebrew rig, in a large group, and was surprised to hear someone on using a K3! I don't know what microphone he was using but the K3 sounded very thin. It was the first K3 I have heard on the air on any mode. Since it was a very large group, I did not get to ask about the Microphone and so on, but almost all the modern rigs sound better on AM than the K3 did. On the positive side, I did not notice the audio getting into the alc like it does on some radios, which shows up as reducing the carrier under modulation, and the audio sounded clean. In my book, most of the modern rigs do poorly on AM receive as far as distortion, noise and frequency response go, limiting the low end response to something like 200 or 100 Hz, but listen to some good AM on an old tube receiver with push pull 6L6's, or the detector output of an R390 into a hifi amplifier, and its a whole other thing. What really surprises me is how good the K2 sounds on ssb receive, with an outboard hifi speaker, listening to the essb guys. Brett N2DTS ______________________________________________________________ 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
