[Elecraft] Noise Blanker Wish List.

[Stewart Baker]

Geoff,

I think that you hit the nail on the head 'cost'.
There are lots of nice things one could do to the K2 such as a better noise 
blanker, but only a few people would want to pay for them.
Good luck with your homebrew extensions.

73
Stewart G3RXQ

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:32:10 -0000, Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote:
> Thanks for the comment Stewart. I suspect that the advent of DSP has put the
>
> very effective Evasive Noise Blanking technique in the background, perhaps
> cost. I would like to try eliminating the IF Gate, and have the blanker's
> output switch off/on the LO drive to one of the 'H' mixers in the homegrown
> receiver. This should be quite easy as 'logic' circuitry provides the 50%
> duty cycle square wave LO to each mixer, but I would probably get myself in
> a muddle with timing etc. Worth trying though as then there would be no
> blanking circuitry in the direct signal path, other than the input which is
> well isolated..
>
> 73,
> Geoff
> GM4ESD
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stewart Baker" <stewart at baker.nildram.co.uk>
> To: "Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy" <gmk at gm4esd.fsworld.co.uk> "Elecraft
> Discussion List" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 9:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Noise Blanker Wish List.
>
>
> The Trio TS180S had this scheme of noise blanker as well.
>
> 73
> Stewart G3RXQ