[Elecraft] Beat the drum a little

[WILLIS COOKE]

Merv, I agree with all that except feeling guilty.  I think some of the raspyness comes from a very loud signal with the audio gain set too high.  I notice it in contests when the heat is on, but not so much otherwise.  I turn the gain up to pick out a weak one then don't turn it back down until the raspy distortion gets to me.  I enjoyed my K3 more this time than before because of the "NOISE" thread that went on and on to the distress of some.  This thread helped me to understand the fine points of the AGC and NB much better and increased the considerable ability of the K3 by using these features better than before.

It was a great contest with great propagation in spite of some local noise (that the NB handled superbly) and S8 to S9 atomospheric noise for a lot of the time.  Great contest, great transceiver, but how did we miss each other Merv?  You are a frequent contest contact, but not this time!
 Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
K5EWJ 




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From: Merv Schweigert <k9fd at flex.com>
Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sun, January 31, 2010 12:53:22 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] Beat the drum a little

After another interesting round of CQ 160 I would like to beat
the K3 drum a little also,
I found myself feeling guilty many times,  I had the width set down
under 400HZ and tuning the band would work DX and not even
realize there was a 10 over 9 station less than a half KC up or
down from me.  Had no problem with klix etc with most stations.
Had one /KH6 out here that would be at times 10 KHZ wide with
strange buzz on his signal,  raspy and wide.  Be interested to know
what type or radio that was.
Can say bar none that the K3 performs better than any radio I have
owned or used under these type of conditions. 
I have my pet peeves about a few items but they are over ridden at
present by its performance in crowded conditions.
Worked about 5 new ones even so was a nice contest for me.

One question I have,  when the band is wall to wall with strong signals
the CW note seems to have a raspy quality on receive,  not a real
pure DC note,  is this some side effect of DSP or what?  Maybe its
just my ears.  Tuned 20 meters this morning and all sounds fine,
its just when there are many many strong signals on the band, I hear
this,  have heard it before but figured it is my ears.  This is
slight and most may not even hear it. 
No blanker on, no NR on,  just standard settings. 
73 Merv KH7C
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