[Elecraft] Beyond the K2, Part 1 of 3

Tue Apr 29 22:00:05 2003

It's a matter of personal taste.  For me, I find s-meters very
bothersome in my visual field.  All I care about is "can I hear the guy
at the noise floor or not." It's easy to become sensorially addicted to
watching an s-meter, which may take away processing capacity from most
efficiently copying signals.

That is why I'm glad the K2 s-meter can be turned off: It's a much more
elegant solution than what I do with my Omni (cover the s-meter with an
ugly piece of paper).

73, Scott W3TX 

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vic Rosenthal
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 11:23 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Beyond the K2, Part 1 of 3

[email protected] wrote:

> I loaned my K2/100 to a friend a while back to try with his new Alpha
99
> amp (his rig did not have adjustable tx output).  He returned it the
next
> day saying that it worked fine with his new amplifier, but he didn't
like
> the K2 because the S-meter was stingy.  This was embarassing for me
and
> surely was the loss of a potential Elecraft customer.

First of all, the K2 s-meter is just a little bit less sensitive than 
the one on my TS850.  Hardly a big deal, and as you well know, S-meters 
vary all over the map.

Secondly, the one who should be embarassed is the guy who made a big 
deal about it!  If he's old enough to be allowed to operate an Alpha 99 
he should know that S-meters are only useful for relative comparisons 
and therefore it doesn't matter if one is a bit stingy and another 
generous.  This has been discussed over and over on the reflector, and I

personally have been listing to complaints, etc. about S-meters since
1956.

Vic K2VCO

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