[Elecraft] Stingy S-meter on the K2?

[John J. McDonough]

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From: "David A. Belsley" <belsley@bc.edu>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Stingy S-meter on the K2?


> The JA gear tends to juice up their s-meter readings

My Icom 706 service manual specifies calibrating the S meter at -73 dBm (50
uV) for S9, which is as close to an agreed upon standard as I've seen.
After setting S9 you are supposed to set S9+60 at 60 dB over that.

The result is relatively stingy reports, especially on higher frequencies.
They say to calibrate it at 20 meters, obviously you see higher numbers on
80, lower on 10.

Even if you had a calibrated receiver that was flat across all the bands,
though, the voltage at your antenna terminals says more about your antenna
than it does about the incoming signal, so I agree that a subjective report
is actually more informative.

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