[Elecraft] [K3] Phase Noise / CW Key Clicks

Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft eric at elecraft.com
Fri Sep 14 16:46:49 EDT 2012


Let's end this thread (regarding policing of on air tx signals etc) now in the interest of reducing list noise level.

73,
Eric
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On Sep 14, 2012, at 1:32 PM, David Gilbert <xdavid at cis-broadband.com> wrote:

> 
> True.  As I said in another post, I'd love to see someone write an SDR 
> application that captured and quantified such things, but in the absence 
> of that screenshots from a scrolling spectrum display (waterfall) would 
> help.  The problem is that you lose the amplitude information when you 
> use the waterfall that is necessary to establish the time correlation 
> between center frequency and spurious crap.  With a normal spectrum 
> analyzer that shows amplitude you can't see the correlation in a screenshot.
> 
> Maybe it's possible to display a 3D spectrum display!   ;)
> 
> 73,
> Dave   AB7E
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/14/2012 12:32 PM, Ian White GM3SEK wrote:
>>> I don't scan the bands
>>> looking for bad signals because I spend my time contesting instead, but
>>> I always jot down the callsigns of the really bad signals I find and I
>>> highlight the worst of them in my 3830 report. I've seen others do the
>>> same, although it would certainly help if everyone did.
>>> 
>>> Dave   AB7E
>>> 
>> But we still need objective evidence, to justify action being taken.
>> 
>> For this and many other reasons, it really would help is if we could
>> *quickly* dump high-resolution screen grabs out of the P3SVGA's USB
>> port, onto a memory stick for example.
>> 
>> (A simple system-generated filename with a time stamp would be enough to
>> identify the image for consideration later, without interrupting our own
>> operating.)
>> 
>> Part of that same signal analysis package would be a much faster
>> waterfall for improved time resolution.
>> 
>> These features were kind-of on Alan's list, but they need some momentum.
>> 
>> 
> 
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