[Elecraft] P3 Feature Request - Transmit sampling

[Edward R Cole]

I don't have a P3, so my curiosity is only academic.

The "sampling function" being referred to, would bring a low power 
sample of transmit power to the P3?  This does not seem very 
difficult to "roll your own" sampler.  I gather the P3 has the needed 
RF ckts to receive RF and demod it, or is that also needed?

I use LP-Pan with my K3. The LP-Pan only works in Rx so not really 
usable for analyzing the K3's own transmissions.  It will work to 
look at the KX3, of course.  AFAIK the K3 will not work in duplex mode.

I also have a SDR-IQ, which makes a superb spectrum analyzer for 
freq. up to 30-MHz. The SDR-IQ only needs a small antenna to "sniff" 
enough RF to display the spectrum as wide as 190-KHz or down to <KHz 
if looking for IMD.  The SDR-IQ can be used as IF Rx for transverters 
to extend usable frequency higher.  I recently used it to analyze Sun 
noise performance of my dish on 1296-MHz and to measure insertion 
loss for some coax relays.

Not usual for most ham stations, I also have a surplus HP141T with 
plug-ins for 0-1250 MHz and up to 26 GHz.



73, Ed - KL7UW
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