[Elecraft] K3 dbV in 2.38

[d.cutter at ntlworld.com]

Lateral thinking.  Sounds good to me
David
G3UNA

> 
> From: "Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy" <gm4esd at btinternet.com>
> Date: 2008/09/17 Wed AM 09:33:31 BST
> To: "Elecraft Discussion List" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 dbV in 2.38
> 
> 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.
> 
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