[Elecraft] P3 Feature Request - Transmit sampling

[Tom]

Even if they never add the feature, wouldn't it be better to use a
device like the Kenwood SM-230 monitor, rather than giving up an
excellent XCVR for the sake of monitoring youe signal?

Tom
N5GE

On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:03:50 -0500, you wrote:

>I know we aren't suppose to do the 'me to' kind of posts here
>and before hundreds of others add theirs and the topic gets canned 
>(again)...
>
>as far as I am concerned this is the only remaining 'feature' that ruins 
>an otherwise perfect station combo.
>
>perhaps the Flex is worth looking at again if this is never going to be 
>addressed??
>
>On 9/24/2013 9:11 AM, Gary Gregory wrote:
>> Your not alone...:-(
>>
>>
>> On 25 September 2013 00:09, Bob <WB4SON at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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