[Elecraft] P3 Feature Request - Transmit sampling
Bob
WB4SON at gmail.com
Tue Sep 24 10:09:43 EDT 2013
So I've been loving my P3 for about 2 years now, and I keep looking at that
lonely sensor window in the back, dreaming and wishing....
Yesterday I received an email from a ham a few thousand miles away asking
me to clean up my signal -- I was running JT65 at the time, and he saw my
signal decode on his rig in a half-dozen spots across the waterfall. I
panicked, of course, and immediately checked everything -- Line Level was
four bars steady with an occasional fifth bar flickering, transmit power
was 5.0 watts, monitor was sounding perfectly fine, and my handheld
receiver was sounding OK too. Later that night a nearby ham was nice
enough to run a spectral analysis on my signal and found it looked clean as
well.
Imagine how easy it would be for me to verify my outbound signal quality if
my P3 had an outboard RF sampling tap that communicated via IR back to the
P3 and allows the outbound RF to be displayed.
One can dream and wish.
73, Bob, WB4SON
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