[Elecraft] Useful P3 feature

[Vic Rosenthal 4X6GP/K2VCO]

I don't want it to try to maintain the level automatically. I want to be 
able to recall the saved offset with a function button push. That way it 
is up to me if I want to reset it.

On 6 Mar 2015 18:16, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
> Wouldn't that need to be dampened a lot. What happens if there is QRN, you
> wouldn't want to be pushing the real stuff down. It would NOT be a simple
> function, and there would be wide variation on what seemed "slick".
>
> 73, Guy
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV <lists at subich.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>   I don't want to save the REF LVL. I want to save its relationship to
>>> the noise level.
>>>
>>
>> I agree.  Put another way, I'd like to see a reverse baseline "clamp" -
>> something along the line of holding REF LVL 5 dB below the average
>> noise level.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>>     ... Joe, W4TV
>>
>>
>> On 2015-03-06 7:56 AM, Vic Rosenthal 4X6GP/K2VCO wrote:
>>
>>> Here is something I would like to see on the P3.
>>>
>>> The P3 saves the REF LVL setting per band. But of course the noise level
>>> on a given band varies as conditions change, and I find myself often
>>> adjusting the REF LVL.
>>>
>>> The optimum setting is with the REF LVL just below the noise level.
>>> Setting it higher loses detail, and setting it lower fills the waterfall
>>> with noise.
>>>
>>> What I would like would be to adjust the REF LVL to optimum with respect
>>> to the noise level and then save this relationship. Then I would like to
>>> be able to push a function button to automatically adjust the REF LVL to
>>> re-establish the same relationship.
>>>
>>> This would make the readjustment, which I find myself making every few
>>> minutes sometimes, much quicker and easier.
>>>
>>> I don't want to save the REF LVL. I want to save its relationship to the
>>> noise level.


-- 
73,
Vic, 4X6GP/K2VCO
Rehovot, Israel
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/