Wouldn't the fact that the bandwidth is much more narrow in the KX3 than your typical SW RX. So AM is much better SSB probably better (speaker used not mentioned). A lot of SW radios copy FM radio stations, hence better fidelity. The signal strength maybe just apparent because the Signal + Noise is greater
My 2 cents worth, I'd give more but I have spent my money with Elecraft George, W6GF Sent from my iPad > On Aug 18, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Wayne Burdick <n...@elecraft.com> wrote: > > The Grudig has more gain because it is designed to be used with a short whip. > The KX3 is built for high dynamic range with full-size antennas, so it will > perform better with a long wire, dipole, vertical, etc., cut for the band in > use. > > But if you have no choice but to use a short whip with the KX3 sometimes, you > can increase the PREAMP menu setting to 30 dB (a per-band setting). > > 73, > Wayne > N6KR > > > > > >> On Aug 18, 2014, at 7:46 AM, Chris Chien <auspicious3...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Someone said the KX3 makes a descent shortwave receiver using telescopic >> antenna. >> I connected a whip antenna with loading coil for 20m, and compared the >> performance side by side to a Grundig G3 shortwave radio. The latter was >> using its own internal telescopic antenna. >> However, the G3 radio turned out to be better than the KX3 in terms of both >> signal strength and clarity on SSB and AM. >> Is this normal for KX3? Has anyone ever tried using the KX3 with a simple >> whip? >> >> 73, >> AC9FU >> Chris >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to n...@elecraft.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to georgefrit...@yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
