[Elecraft] P3 auto REF LVL adjust?

[Mike Markowski]

Gary VE1RGB is traveling and asked that I forward to the list his note that
was accidentally sent only to me.  He describes a table lookup rather than
the noise temp calc in my note.  Maybe there are still more ideas?

73,
Mike ab3ap

On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Gary Bartlett <garybartlett1 at eastlink.ca>wrote:

> Hi, Mike:
>
> As a field tester for the P3, I pestered Elecraft about this very thing
> and I was told that it had made the list of enhancements to do to the P3 at
> some point.  I use wire antennas matched by the K3 and verticals which are
> externally tuned and two different listening antennas, and the noise levels
> of those antennas show great variance at any given point in time.  As a
> mostly S&P CW contester, I am continually changing antenna selections and
> that means that I have my fingers on the REF LVL controls constantly.  I
> was not the only field tester who wanted something a little more
> sophisticated w.r.t. the way REF LVL works.
>
> My idea was that REF LVL would have memories, so to speak, that would
> recall its setting for each combinations of ANT 1/ANT 2 and RX ANT
> selections, Tuner ON/BYPASS settings by band (maybe some other control
> settings too) such that once set up at the start of a contest, I would not
> need to touch REF LVL again except to make minor adjustments in response to
> changes in local noise level and daily propagation changes during a
> contest.  It is something of a nuisance as currently configured, and I
> don't see this as laziness on my part :)
>
> Alan N1AL can probably tell us where that sits on the priority list.
>
> 73,
> Gary VE1RGB P3 #007
>
>