[Elecraft] Where to put the wattmeter

[Fred Jensen]

The classic way [I believe used by the now-ancient Heath monitor scope 
although I could be mixing up archaeologic relics] was to feed the RF 
sensor output to the vertical deflection and the audio [from the speech 
amp ... remember those?] to the horizontal deflection.  I've just never 
found that the time-domain waveform was a very good indicator of signal 
quality.  I can vaguely see a system where the P3 in TX monitor mode 
would accept a hypothetical "TX audio monitor output" from the K3 to 
provide the H-deflection ...that might do it ... I think.

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

Alan Bloom wrote on 4/19/2023 7:32 PM:
> There's no reason the P3 can't display it if you have a way to 
> generate the trapezoidal pattern from the transmitter.  I think 
> feeding a triangle wave from a function generator into the mic input 
> would do it.
>
> Alan N1AL
>
>
>
> On 4/19/23 16:38, Fred Jensen wrote:
>> and I'd buy one if it would do a trapezoidal pattern.  Judging TX 
>> signal quality looking at the time-domain envelope is pretty hard, 
>> but I can judge straight sides on the T-pattern
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
>> Sparks NV DM09dn
>> Washoe County
>



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