[Elecraft] Re: K3 and phase noise

[wayne burdick]

Bill Tippett wrote:

> The other thing all of us need to remember about
> extremely close spaced measurements is that these are
> made with continuous carriers (i.e. no key clicks) from
> ultra-quiet sources (e.g. HP 8640Bs or quartz oscillators).
> In the real world, nearby signals will have much more
> noise from clicks and their own TX phase noise.

Bill,

If you integrate total world-wide TX phase noise and clicks on 20 m 
now, then do it again after we've shipped our first two batches of K3s, 
one would hope to see a healthy decrease.

This is left as an exercise for the reader  :)

73,
Wayne
N6KR


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