[Elecraft] Noise Power Ratio and the K3 with new synthesizer?

[Wayne Burdick]

The transceivers near the top of Adam's list are all pretty close in performance; possibly close enough to be indistinguishable in actually use on-air. 

A K3 with the new synths may have been been better still. 

73,
Wayne
N6KR


On Mar 12, 2015, at 7:53 AM, Chip Stratton <chip at strattonfamily.us> wrote:

> Adam Farson VA7OJ has an article in the current March/April 2015 QEX
> discussing the use of Noise Power Ratio (NPR) to help define a
> receiver's performance in a crowded band in a way that might be more
> illuminating than the simpler two tone tests. Its an interesting
> discussion which makes some sense, but then I'm not anywhere close to
> an expert in that field.
> 
> In any event, he has figures from a number of transceivers, including
> a couple of K3s which no doubt do not have the new synthesizer. The
> K3s still performed very well relative the the rest of the field in
> these tests, though they were slightly behind the IC-7700, IC-7800,
> and TS-590S.
> 
> Which of course makes me wonder how the K3 with new synthesizer would
> perform in this arena?
> 
> From a guy with a mild metrology addiction...
> Chip
> AE5KA
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