I have read with great interest the threads regarding "mush" or "blur" that some have experienced in pile-up situations where several callers were near or at the noise level, and all blended together.
I am not qualified to say whether or not I have experienced this specific artifact. However, during last weekend's 10M contest I experienced some interesting phenomena while working each day (at a leisurely pace) for about 3 hours on CW only. My antenna at the time was a 176ft doublet fed with ladder line, from the K3/KPA500 (amp was not really needed, but it was there). I would occasionally switch to a coax-fed G5RV at 90 degrees to, and below the 176fter. As these antennas are not unidirectional, I would often hear stations short-path and long path at the same time, which would add to the perceived "blur" or "mush". It was also QUITE interesting to hear MYSELF call, as my own signal returned to my receiver after circling the globe. The smooth QSK in the K3 made this quite apparent. Great fun. 72/73, Bruce N1RX ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
