[Elecraft] P3 NB FW

[Phil Wheeler]

Me, too, Fred. But this is sounding too good to 
wait on.

73, Phil w7ox

On 4/25/14, 7:26 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
> I had kind of sworn off of beta releases after a 
> fiasco with Firefox, but this sounded good, and 
> it was Alan's, so I installed it.
>
> Really cool Alan!  Lots of electrified fences 
> around here [two are mine], it's spring and the 
> weeds grow up under them at about 12"/day it 
> seems, and I have a lot of "fence hash."  The K3 
> NB took it out of my headphones, now it's out of 
> my P3 too. :-)
>
> FWIW:  Very sensitive to the threshold setting 
> when on strong signals. Tonight on NCN [3533], 
> NCS was Jim, K9JM ... about 10 miles from me and 
> very strong.  Threshold of 13 caused all sorts 
> of artifacts to show up as if he had spurs up 
> and down the band, which he doesn't of course.  
> 12 pretty much got rid of them.
>
> At 11, which is what I think it came up with, 
> the power hash was very suppressed and I could 
> actually see some of the "noise humps" from 
> specific noisemakers that were buried under the 
> general uproar.
>
> Nice work Alan!  You might consider a little 
> bandspread on the threshold control, it seems to 
> have a very big effect.  And, I've done this 
> before but thanks again for the monochrome 
> waterfall option, you can't know what this did 
> for me! :-)
>
> 73,
>
> Fred K6DGW
> - Northern California Contest Club
> - CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
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