[Elecraft] K3 dumb Q about PPM, less dumb one about NB

Don Wilhelm w3fpr at embarqmail.com
Thu Apr 1 10:27:18 EDT 2010


LS,

Review all the menu options listed in the manual, and you should then 
have a better understanding of the variety of ways the K3 can be set up 
for your particular preferences.

In the case of your specific question, look at the CONFIG: NB SAVE menu 
description.

73,
Don W3FPR

lstavenhagen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just refreshing my 6th grade education here: 1 ppm variation at 10 mhz would
> be +/- 10 hz correct? I calibrated my K3 ref. osc. again yesterday (against
> 10mhz WWV) after a warmup of about an hour - this am I turned it on and
> checked it against 10mhz WWV and the display read about 6 or maybe 7 hz high
> (against my spot tone in CW mode). 
>
> I'm shocked, I tell you shocked... that this thing is off by 6hz when you
> first turn it on, what kind of operation is elecraft to let something like
> this through...... that'd be approx .6ppm drift right? 
>
> As for the noise blanker question, sorry if this is in the docs, but the NB
> on/off state doesn't save when you change bands (tho the settings of it are
> changed).  It always turns off when changing bands. Is this configurable?
> (i.e. save on/off state of NM per band)?
>   
>


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