[Elecraft] P3, what lies ahead?

[Amateur Radio Operator N5GE]

I used mine the other day to calibrate my filters gains.  It was easy to get
them all matched up using the XG2 and the amplitude scale.

Another use I plan for it is to adjust the preamp's in my xv432, xv144 and other
devices with preamp's using the N-GEN.

It should function very well as a piece of test gear too.

73,

Tom Childers
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:42:07 -0800 (PST), juergen <plebian99 at yahoo.com>  wrote:

>
>Hi Bill
>
>The most logical next step would be transmit monitoring. 
>
>I would like to see the facility for 2 directional couplers. One at the output of the K3 and one at the output of the amp. It would also be nice if you could have IN and OUT for these directional couplers so that you could use it for  scope monitoring or for inserting crystal notch filters inline for serious IMD monitoring of your amp. 
>
>How far the P3 evolves into test instrument or a toy accessory, is really up to Elecraft. The P3 has sufficient performance to be a test instrument rather than being just a toy bandscope. The review in  QST alludes to this possibility.
>
>Telepost's new LP500  is where the P3 should be heading. However we will just have to wait and see what comes out from the end of the P3 engineering pipeline.
>
>My vote is for TX Monitoring and spectrum analyzer features. A tracking generator  would be nice for homebrewers as well.
>
>73
>John
>--- On Wed, 2/23/11, Bill <able2fly at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Bill <able2fly at aol.com>
>> Subject: [Elecraft] P3, what lies ahead?
>> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>> Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 2:13 PM
>> 
>> Has anyone figured out the possible purpose of those unused
>> holes in the P3 backpanel?
>> 
>> One of them labeled "sensor"  ???
>> 
>> 73, K3UJ
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