[Elecraft] receiver distortion

[Bob]

No wonder it sounds  poor....   Your using the cheap "junk"!!!

Also the input to the power supply has to be addressed also. I would 
recommend these:

  http://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=KKPK10PAL

Hopefully they will have designed a heavy duty 220 Volt model for when 
the  Elecraft linear becomes
available. 

73,
Bob
K2TK


Mike Harris wrote:

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>Certainly even with the K2 and any other receiver it is easy to find some 
>pretty lousy signals.  More so during contests.  However, to suggest that 
>the K3 is sooooo good that others sound routinely bad is heading towards 
>the "golden eared" audiophile nonsense.  Nope, it's not the receiver, it's 
>the 169 strand single crystal oxygen free copper unidirectional leads to 
>your external computer speakers.
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>Now, where did I put that $500 solid silver power lead with the "special 
>edition" gold APP's on.  That's just got to improve the TX IMD surely?
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>The reported A/B with the R2C and an unbiased(?) XYL seemed to suggest 
>otherwise.
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>Apologies.
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>More seriously, I've been fiddling with the bandwidth, Lo and Hi cut and 
>audio settings on my K3 and achieved a compromise I like.  It has 
>nevertheless made me ponder the whole concept of AD/DA converting a low 
>level signal in a noise background.  All AD/DA conversion results in some 
>level of quantisation distortion which might be more noticeable in this 
>circumstance which is routinely encountered in DXing.
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>Mike VP8NO 
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