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

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

Thank you for the graphs.

This is something the North Carolina PVRC group that did field day
together north of Raleigh already knew about K3's vs. the world from a
pile of experiences.  We had five or six K3's available to us, and we
went purely with the K3's on HF in the 3A class.  We had a little
horizontal physical spread to help out, but we often had both CW and
SSB on the same band at the same time due to the conditions, and one
could not hear the co-band K3.

So I knew what to expect from your curves on the K3.

73, Guy K2AV


> 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