[Elecraft] P3SVGA

[Jim Brown]

On 8/15/2014 7:24 AM, XE3/K5ENS via Elecraft wrote:
> The ad needs to be changed to reflect this point.
> The P3SVGA display is NOT a copy of the P3 screen.  I know the digital
> decoding is added.  By the way has, for me using a K3 for 6 years, never
> worked well enough on weak signals to be beneficial.

It isn't clear whether you mean that the P3SVGA doesn't work well 
displaying weak signals, or that the decoding doesn't work well. First, 
the decoding is done by the K3, and the P3SVGA simply displays it in a 
more user-friendly form.  Second, the SVGA displays a completely 
different FFT with more bins (better resolution), with the same 
frequency and amplitude settings of the P3. The P3SVGA can be set for a 
very long waterfall time, which is quite useful finding holes in 
contests and DX pileups. And both the P3 and P3SVGA are VERY good at 
finding weak signals if set for maximum averaging and fixed tune mode.

I regularly use a P3 to find action on VHF, and I've got an LOTW QSL 
from Iraq because the P3 found him somewhere different from where he was 
spotted. I work CW, SSB, JT65, FSK441, and ISCAT-B on 6M, so I set the 
P3 to monitor from 50.080 to 50.280. This lets me see action on CW and 
SSB when I'm in RX mode of one of the WSJT modes. I've picked up at 
least a dozen grids this season because I saw them on the P3.

73, Jim K9YC