K3 : SSB modulation

[DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL]

>From one contester to another....

It is my experience that it takes more "set up" to get your transmitted
audio to sound more like the Kenwood of old (nothing ever came close to the
Signal/One transmitted audio).

I got on a "dead" band with a local who has known me for decades and we
played with the different audit xmit bands...a LOT of playing.  As W3FPR
suggested, I say to make sure the "low" audio bands are bottomed out
(minimum setting).  That is wasted power unless you're into ESSB (not
contesting).

I know that the first time KT3Y got on SSB (multi-op) they were ready to
throw the radios out, but that's because they did zero setup.

Even though you say you have adjusted a lot of knobs, I suggest focusing on
the audio band adjustments ALONG WITH the other advice (such as from W4ZV).

I recently helped another local set up his audio (he got some complaints
too) and the first thing I had him do was to shut down (max minus dbs) the
low audio segments/bands for the xmit.  He didn't sound bad to begin with,
but for contesting, well, it made a nice difference.

G/L

de Doug KR2Q

PS...your contest results do not indicate a problem.  :-)
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[K2QI]

I've pretty much cut all of the lower frequencies out on my TX EQ and have gotten very good audio reports. K3 can sound good on SSB but has to be tweaked.

James K2QI
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Subject: [Elecraft] K3 : SSB modulation

>From one contester to another....

It is my experience that it takes more "set up" to get your transmitted
audio to sound more like the Kenwood of old (nothing ever came close to the
Signal/One transmitted audio).

I got on a "dead" band with a local who has known me for decades and we
played with the different audit xmit bands...a LOT of playing.  As W3FPR
suggested, I say to make sure the "low" audio bands are bottomed out
(minimum setting).  That is wasted power unless you're into ESSB (not
contesting).

I know that the first time KT3Y got on SSB (multi-op) they were ready to
throw the radios out, but that's because they did zero setup.

Even though you say you have adjusted a lot of knobs, I suggest focusing on
the audio band adjustments ALONG WITH the other advice (such as from W4ZV).

I recently helped another local set up his audio (he got some complaints
too) and the first thing I had him do was to shut down (max minus dbs) the
low audio segments/bands for the xmit.  He didn't sound bad to begin with,
but for contesting, well, it made a nice difference.

G/L

de Doug KR2Q

PS...your contest results do not indicate a problem.  :-)
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