[Elecraft] K3 dbV in 2.38

[Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy]

Would it be useful to call it Vdb,  i.e. a voltage measurement not 
necessarily using the 1V RMS standard reference?
 
73,
Geoff
GM4ESD
 
 
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:40:04 -0700, Lyle Johnson wrote:
>
>>> Maybe dBv stands for dB "variable," not dB with respect to a volt.
>
>>Not with respect one volt, but voltage based, using the 20log rather
>>than the power-based 10log conversion.
 
Jim K9YC wrote:

> Hold on a minute. We cannot sit over in our little corner and pretend
> that the rest of the world does not exist. That's how we got into
> trouble with the KIO3.
>
> dBV is a voltage measure with a reference of 1V RMS. It's an
> international standard. If a K3 function does something else, it needs
> to be called something else.