[Elecraft] Signal comparison k3 vs p3

[Alan Bloom]

See the P3 Owner's Manual section "How to Set Up and Interpret the P3 
Display" the paragraph that starts, "You would expect the S meter on the 
K3 and the signal on the P3 display to indicate the same level..."

Basically, the P3 has an effective receive bandwidth narrower than the 
K3.  So for a narrow-band signal like CW they should read the same, but 
for a spread-out signal like SSB, each frequency point of the P3 only 
contains a fraction of the total signal so it appears to read lower.

Alan N1AL


On 3/8/2013 11:18 AM, Paul VanOveren wrote:
> Just listening to 9a2na on 15 meters....S-9 on the K3 S meter and about
> S5-S6 on the P3 and also on the larger monitor, SVGA...How do I get them to
> match each other?, or at least be somewhat similar strength.?
>
> NF8J
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