[Elecraft] Bigger K3 S-meter

[Guy, K2AV]

I would just like to see signal strength, including noise, in absolute
reference levels. In particular when listening to a local while turning a
beam kind of thing.  Although that can be done relatively with the audio
voltage level, it wouldn't allow me to tell a local that his ground wave
signal has gone down 3 db and is staying there, or be able to create data
for studies over time.  

Since it is an SDW, such is possible.  dBuv is fine.  Might need linearity
points as part of the package which could be calibrated with a precision
attenuator. 


Changing the functionality of the BG or SM commands so they could provide
greater resolution *would* break software, which is what I was saying. But
while I can see that having software access to the dBm reading could be
useful for antenna measurement purposes, given the vagaries of propagation I
would have thought that a 1 S-unit resolution was perfectly adequate for
normal purposes. I cannot see how it would be more useful to be told I am
S6.5 rather than S6 or S7, or even S5 or S8! Whatever the reading is it is
going to be different 20 seconds later anyway.


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