[Elecraft] Quality

[Alan Bloom]

If the phase noise is good on receive it will also be good on transmit. 
The same synthesizer is used for both.

Al N1AL


On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 13:16, AD6XY - Mike wrote:
> I have heard a lot about the excellent performance of the new K3 in rejecting
> nearby interfering signals.
> 
> Great performance in the receiver is useless if the strong signal nearby is
> excessively wide. I hope to be that strong signal, so I hope I am not
> transmitting a wide signal.
> 
> I wonder how everyone else quantitatively tests the transmitted signal
> quality?
> 
> Is the 2-tone test unit used. What about phase noise. I can measure down to
> 70 dB below the wanted signal, but more than that is a challenge and yet it
> still matters very much to the listener adjacent if I am an S9+ signal. I
> think my signal is clean, but is it?
> 
> What does everyone else do?
>