[Elecraft] WRTC 2014 - Congratulations, Elecraft!...(and firmware update)

[Jim Brown]

On 7/27/2014 3:19 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
> I think that most are looking for something the K3 WRTC numbers are
> not telling. I rather doubt that people went out and bought them for
> the WRTC.  With those kinds of numbers, the market had already made
> its decision a long time ago.

Well, a certain portion of the market certainly has -- those need a high 
performance rig for use under demanding conditions, including those of a 
contest multi-op.

Egged on by a discussion on another email relector, I replotted ARRL 
test data for key clicks and TX phase noise. I'm not going to stop 
there, but the results so far tell a large part of the story.

k9yc.com/TXNoise.pdf

Consider it a work in progress. ARRL publishes its data in the form of 
graphs pretty small, and in some cases with too-wide ranging scales, so 
it takes a lot of practice to get data within +/- 1.5 dB.

73, Jim K9YC