[Elecraft] K3 AM Performance

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft]

Looks like we are drifting far OT and afield of the original poster's intent. 
Let's close the OT part of this thread and get it back to optimization of the 
K3's AM freq response.

Also, keep snide pro/com AM comments off of this list, as that is outside of the 
guidelines.

73,
Eric
List Moderator
elecraft.com

On 3/23/2015 5:28 PM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft wrote:
> I never seen the point of the CW decoder.
> If I'm going to use a decoder I may as well just use RTTY or one of the PSK modes.
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>        From: Tony Estep <esteptony at gmail.com>
>   To: Elecraft Reflector <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
>   Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 7:02 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 AM Performance
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> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 5:41 PM, jim <jbollit at outlook.com> wrote:
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>> ...a better CW code reader would be a better use...
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> Well, it's true, the CW reader gets complaints on here, but I have a
> different take. I had never tried it until a couple of nights ago -- in
> fact, I had to look in the manual to see how to turn it on. But I ran
> across a long-winded qso at about 85 wpm and I couldn't copy a doggone
> thing. I decided to try the CW reader to see if it was indeed CW. Sure
> enough, the CW reader started revealing words and then sentences and
> paragraphs. It missed words, but there was plenty enough copy to follow the
> whole conversation. I also tried my software CW reader; it got nothing.
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> If you think about it you can see that a CW reader has lots of challenges,
> way more than an FSK reader. So it looks to me as if that little processor
> inside the K3 is doing pretty well. Maybe it could be better, but it seems
> usable as is. And really, the average qso takes place at more like 25,
> which shouldn't present a problem for plain old ear copy.
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> 73, Tony KT0NY
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