[Elecraft] Is it just me?

[Wes N7WS]

True... that applies to the K3 preamp as well so it can still be a net gain.

And if the feed line is 50' of 1 5/8 Heliax then it hardly matters. 

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> On Jan 25, 2017, at 5:54 PM, Ken Arck <ken at arcomcontrollers.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, I don't want this to devolve into an OT issue but it is well established that any feedline loss ahead of the receiver adds to the total noise figure of the system. (outside influences such as sky temperature, local noise sources, etc notwithstanding)
> 
> So if you place a preamp with a NF of .5 dB at the "rig end" of a feedline run that exhibits 3 dB of loss at the frequency involved, you now have an effective noise figure of 3.5 dB ahead of your receiver. Placing the preamp at the antenna has an obvious advantage of reducing that NF by 3 dB.
> 
> Period
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
> At 04:45 PM 1/25/2017, Jim Brown wrote:
>> That depends on settings within the email reflector and also on settings within your email program. And it also depends on whether you are paying attention when you compose your email. When an email reflector defaults to "reply to both," I try to remember to delete the email to the sender and respond only to the reflector. In my email program (Thunderbird) it's easy to see what's going on in the address section of the email.
>> 
>> 73, Jim K9YC
>> 
>>> On Wed,1/25/2017 4:21 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
>>> I thought of something later.  When you reply to the list does your
>>> email client also send a private message to the person you're replying
>>> to?  If so, that would explain why you're getting the message as your
>>> client is sending two messages.  I presume the response message is to
>>> enable a white list from real people to the recipient.
>> 
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