http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/KPA500-Clicks-Pops-tp7645665p7645727.html
Haven’t seen a response from him yet, but he may be taking about 160 meters. From what I have read, that may be an acceptable thing on that band, given QSB, band conditions, and antenna limitations.
> On Oct 17, 2018, at 1:34 PM, Edward R Cole <
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> Bob,
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> A question about your statement that you run 400w in digital modes (assuming you mean FT8, etc. and not RTTY). That seems pretty extreme.
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> I pretty much ignore HF usage as I am not on HF very much (primarily an eme'er on 6m+). But back at the beginnings of psk-31 I built a HB interface* for my FT-847 and did a bit of 14.070 operating (with a dipole). I was recommended to not exceeding 25w (or 25% full power). Everyone seemed to do quite well on psk-31 with low power and some ran at QRP (<5w).
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> I do not get why I hear of running high power digital when 10% would communicate easily. You may remonstrate me for running 2m-eme at 1500w on JT-65 but the path loss on 2m-eme is 254 dB+ and contacts are made over a half-million mile path. Certainly not encountered by terrestrial HF users.
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> Not picking on you personally, but you made the statement so figure maybe would reply. Just curious.
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> 73, Ed - KL7UW
> * that I/F later was used for JT-65 on eme 15 years ago. Now use my K3 directly connected.
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> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 16:59:15 -0500
> From: Bob McGraw K4TAX <
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> I do run 400 watts or so on digital modes. Issues are not really noted on SSB or CW modes.
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> I've set the Fan Ctr to 2 and 3 and still noted the issue
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> Was recently showing my K Line to some hams friends. They commented rather negatively on the point.
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> Bob, K4TAX
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> 73, Ed - KL7UW
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