[Elecraft] Band stacking UI rant

[WILLIS COOKE]

Fred, your post is good news to me.  You make the K3
sound like what I want it to be.  I don't have a 250
Hz filter in my 850, just the 500 Hz, so I don't have
the ringing problem but a better noise blanker would
be welcome and a little less band noise will be
welcome.  I hardly dare to expect the near absence of
band noise that I see claimed, but I will welcome any
improvement.  I didn't realize just how good the
receiver in the 850 is until I tried to use a Yaesu
FT-900 in the ARRL 10 meter contest.  It had so much
intermod and other trash that I had to give up after
about 10 minutes and hook up the 850.  I can't say
that there was none on the 850, but much better.  If
the K3 improves on that I will be in hog heaven!

Cookie

--- Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:

> WILLIS COOKE wrote:
> > Fred, my comment was directed at the frequency
> > changing method only.  Of course I hope for better
> > performance from the K3.  I have waited for 18
> years
> > until I was convinced that there was a better than
> > TS-850 receiver available to replace my TS-850,
> but I
> > am still having a hard time believing that it will
> be
> > that much better and really eager to find out.
> 
> I really like my 850, and thought long and hard
> before deciding to 
> replace it with the K3.  I've had the K3 on the air
> about 2 months now, 
> but 15 days of that we were gone.  I had an INRAD
> 250 Hz filter in the 
> 500 Hz position in the 2nd IF in the 850, and it
> rang quite a bit.  I 
> sort of got used to it, but listening "down a pipe"
> got annoying and 
> tiring.  The K3 DSP is totally ring-free despite the
> fact that it has 
> nearly brick-wall skirts, and being able to
> separately adjust the width 
> and center is just amazing.  I haven't tried the
> high/low cut yet.  The 
> noise blanker really works, the DSP noise reduction
> really works, and I 
> tried out the DSP notch yesterday on two CW signals
> about 90 Hz apart 
> and was stunned ... as I moved the notch down, I
> could totally ... I 
> mean totally ... get rid of one or the other leaving
> one alone and fully 
> copyable.
> 
> I don't understand all the bruhaha about band
> selection on the 
> reflector, I'm used to the 850, and the K3 is just
> like it.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Fred K6DGW
> - Northern California Contest Club
> - CU in the 2008 Cal QSO Party  4-5 Oct 08
> - www.cqp.org
> 


Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
K5EWJ