K3: An interested link

[dhhdeh]

Hey Brett,

Congrats on a point-on and reasoned argument concerning ESSB.

I get a kick out of some of the contest crowd implying that through
limitations to others people's activity, everyone else's interests are
secondary to theirs.

Over my 30 years on the air, I've observed more rude, selfish and
bandwidth-consuming behavior during contests than I have ever heard with
any ESSB round table.

As this thread is not related to elecraft topics and probably should not
continue....but since it is, opinions need to be heard.

73 de N1LQ-Dave





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[David Gilbert]

Of course ... that's what happens when you have literally thousands of
enthusiastic participants scrambling for limited space on the band, most
of whom are trying their best to fit into the smallest possible slice of
it.    So what part of that represents justification for taking up more
bandwidth than is necessary to communicate?

This isn't a contesting versus ESSB argument, though, or at least it
wasn't until you flipped it in that direction.  It's a question of
efficient use of a scarce resource (bandwidth) on the HF bands.  It's
like camping ... when you're out in the middle of the woods ten miles
from the nearest telephone pole, go ahead and crank up your boombox and
rattle the leaves off the trees.  When you're in a public campground 200
yards from the nearest Circle K, have the courtesy to use your earphones.

Even with the K3, Elecraft tacitly acknowledges the risk of interference
in ESSB mode when they state in the manual:

"Carrier and spurious signal suppression, passband shape, delay
characteristics, fidelity, and other aspects of ESSB performance are not
specified.  Use ESSB only after carefully monitoring your signal."

Dave  AB7E



David and Dianne on Comcast wrote:
> Over my 30 years on the air, I've observed more rude, selfish and
> bandwidth-consuming behavior during contests than I have ever heard with
> any ESSB round table.
>
>  
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