[Elecraft] Subject: "Another Better Mouse-trap?"

[David Woolley (E.L)]

Wes Stewart wrote:
> 
> IMHO, the problem with most blankers, as mentioned below, is that the
> designers don't introduce any delay in the signal path. It takes some
+ time to amplify, detect and form the blanking pulses that drive the
+ noise gate.

The standard analogue noise blanker achieves this by using a wideband, 
and therefore low group delay, detector for the noise pulses, and then 
gating the signal after the main selectivity filters, with their 
relatively large group delay.
> 


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