Thanks for the comment Stewart. I suspect that the advent of DSP has put the very effective Evasive Noise Blanking technique in the background, perhaps cost. I would like to try eliminating the IF Gate, and have the blanker's output switch off/on the LO drive to one of the 'H' mixers in the homegrown receiver. This should be quite easy as 'logic' circuitry provides the 50% duty cycle square wave LO to each mixer, but I would probably get myself in a muddle with timing etc. Worth trying though as then there would be no blanking circuitry in the direct signal path, other than the input which is well isolated..
73, Geoff GM4ESD ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stewart Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Elecraft Discussion List" <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 9:27 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Noise Blanker Wish List. The Trio TS180S had this scheme of noise blanker as well. 73 Stewart G3RXQ _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com