[Elecraft] P3 at Orlando hamfest pictures and movies

[Brett Howard]

You had it set to an average of 3 in the video but you also turned it
down to real time and yes it is amply fast...  Its not as fast as the 80
and 120,000 dollar spectrum analyzers I use at work often but its quite
an impressive little gem.  

I'd LOVE to have one by Field Day!  I'm a HUGE fan of FD and I've sold
people on many a K3 at the FD's I've headed out to...  This year I'm
looking at getting a quick field deployable mast setup
(http://www.blueskymast.com) and a K4KIO hex beam setup!  Should be a
blast...

Here's hoping April or May brings the P3 (and I can get in the door
early enough to get one by June)...

Thanks for the show Eric! 

~Brett (KC7OTG)

On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 21:02 -0800, Eric Swartz -WA6HHQ, Elecraft wrote:
> The display artifact that was visible when I adjust the marker is not 
> something that will be present on the released P3. I had just loaded the 
> latest engineering code into my unit for the show and it had a number of 
> minor items like this that had just appeared in the last pass. We'll 
> make sure they aren't there at release. (I haven't actually seen the 
> video - I'm half awake flying home at 34,000 ft. Just hooked up to the 
> in-flight wi-fi a few minutes ago.)
> 
> The P3 code is well structured and is working amazingly well. I'm very 
> happy with the speed of display and resolution. To be honest, I actually 
> slowed -down- the sweep time to 40 ms per pass to make it look its best. 
> (Its adjustable in the menu.) Its blindingly fast. I think I also may 
> have had the signal averaging function turned on with an average of 
> three passes per average when they took those shots. This is also far 
> form our final code. We have a number of unique features coming that 
> were not enabled for the show. (The P3 firmware is downloadable just 
> like the K3..)
> 
> I'll post more info later on this week after I get caught up from the 
> trip. It will take several days as my mailbox is overflowing from four 
> days on the road.
> 
> 73, Eric   WA6HHQ
> ====
> 
> 
> Brett Howard wrote:
> > Ok well it looks like it works very nicely...  Good resolution and fast
> > refresh rates.  
> >
> > I just hope that the screen blinking when you make adjustments is
> > improved on a bit.  It should be a little more dynamic than that and a
> > little less seizure inducing...  ;)  
> >
> > But things like making the screen resize pretty are those final touches
> > that you put on afterward.  I just hope that the code is written in such
> > a way to not make adding that too difficult... 
> >
> > ~Brett (KC7OTG)
> >
> > On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 16:47 -0800, Hector Padron wrote:
> >   
> >> Ok guys this is what you all were waiting, a close view of the P3 in action,thanks to my friend Julio AD4Z who was yesterday at Orlando hamfest with Eric from Elecraft now we have 11 close pictures and also three movies,two of them are short but there is one that is big in which one Eric explain detaily how  the P3 works and you can see it receiving signals,for the ones who have high speed internet at home it will take about 20 minutes to download,others will have to wait more because the file has 267 MB,enjoy as I did as well,here is the link:
> >>  
> >> http://www.ad4c.us/Elecraft%20K3/P3%20at%20Orlando%20hamfest%202010/
> >>  
> >>  
> >> AD4C
> >>  
> >>
> >>
> >> "For a refined ham it is compulsory to own a k3"
> >>
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