[RTTY] Key down & 50% power

[Ktfrog007 at aol.com]

I run my FT-2K flat out all the time in RTTY contests and have ever  since 
I got it.  At first I worried about it, but I got over it.  Will  it blow up 
some day?  Not likely, but if it does both it and I have had one  helluva 
good time.  Life's too short to be 3db down.
 
73,
Kermit. AB1J
 
 
In a message dated 8/24/2011 10:19:43 P.M. GMT Standard Time,  
keepwalking188 at yahoo.com writes:

Phil's  comments about this recommendation being rig specific is right on 
the  money.  That kind of general blanket statement is very 
misleading, in  the same way the PSK setting guidelines of no ALC = quality 
is really rig  specific.

Yaesu's official recommendation (at least what they publish  in the 
manuals) is to run at reduced power if the transmission lasts 
"for  more than a few minutes."  I never could understand that - but since 
I  mostly contest or DX chase on RTTY, I don't send long 
transmissions.   Never had a problem with the 2K or 5K.  Maybe I'm just 
living  lucky?

73, Jeff  ACØC
www.ac0c.com