[Elecraft] Fw: K2 Trouble / Problem

Wed Mar 24 13:23:00 2004

Brian:
In addition to all of the great technical explanations that have been
posted, I'd like to add a bit of practical experience.  
Noise blankers are a way of life for me, as I'm bothered by power line noise
a great deal of the time.  Consequently, I have had experience with blankers
by Collins, Drake, Icom, Kenwood, and Ten Tec, and the K2 is equal to, or
better than the best of them.  Also, the K2's blanker does not seem to add
any distortion of its own, and best of all, strong nearby signals almost
never affect it.  That's certainly not true for anything else I've had.  

One more thing. On CW, I can usually crank the bandwidth down far enough to
eliminate line noise completely, and adding the KAF2 in circuit helps as
well.  Someday, I'll go for the DSP, but I'm honestly pleased with what I
have. 

Good luck,
George - K1GXT

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of W3EME Brian Manns
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 10:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Elecraft] Fw: K2 Trouble / Problem

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----- Original Message -----
From: "W3EME Brian Manns" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:22 AM
Subject: K2 Trouble / Problem

> Hello!  I know what I am about to ask is probably "a terrible thing to
ask"
> here....
> however, I am ready to buy & have been speaking with alot of owners &
people
> who
> build the units....
>
> It was told to me that 1) the noise blanker for the k2 does not work;
can't
> tell if it
> is on or off    2) DSP is way to complicated to use; end up resetting rig
> alot to try
> to use it
>
> The noise blanker to me is the most important....do you need the noise
> blanker when
> you buy the dsp? It looked like the dsp gave more noise blanker
functions...
>
> Again, this is very important to me & I would welcome any replys....direct
> would
> be best without tying up the whole group....
>
>                         Brian w3eme
>

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