[Elecraft] P3 "Tuning Noise"

[Fred Jensen]

Thanks, that's it!  The higher I set the averaging, the more I see the 
effect since the band noise on the baseline gets compressed with more 
averaging.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012
- www.cqp.org

On 10/26/2011 5:41 PM, Grant Youngman wrote:
> What you see in the display when not tuning is the time-averaged
> noise (or signal), depending on how you have the averaging parameter
> set. When you're tuning rapidly the P3 can't average, so the level
> appears to rise.  It's rising toward the actual peak noise level.