[Elecraft] K3 NR needs improvement

[Gary Gregory]

Eric

You are correct from my experience over years of owning my k3

These comments arise from time to time and cause me to scratch my head and
wonder why i am not hearing/seeing these issues too.

Gary
Vk1ZZ
K3, KX3, KPA500-FT, KAT500-FT,P3.
On 05/09/2013 2:34 PM, "eric manning" <emanning at cs.uvic.ca> wrote:

> I'm a CW op, I'm baffled by the comments critical of the K3 NR, APF and
> notch filter.
>
> The  NR generally removes ALL random noise, meaning that the rcvr is
> silent in the absence of signals. Admittedly,  It does get a little upset
> in the presence of
> many strong signals, so I usually turn  it off in pileups.
>
> The notch filter can be tuned manually to  silence  one interfering CW
> signal.
> The APF  is a bit tricky,  you need to use fine tuning [ 3 digits after
> the VFO decimal point],
> tune SLOWWLLY and listen for the weak signal to pop out  of the noise. But
> pop  out it does.
>
> Eric VA7DZ
>
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