Julian, G4ILO wrote on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 4:04 PM > Anyone who claims the K3 is the greatest rig ever is being blinded by > those > IP3 numbers. But state of the art SDR designs like the Perseus manage to > achieve as good or better receiver dynamic range without all those > expensive > crystal roofing filters, so I don't think the K3 deserves the accolade > even > for that reason.
Not to forget what has becoime known as the Holy Grail of receivers, a superhet using a good H-Mode mixer, beefy roofing filter and bullet proof IF, for an in- passband dynamic range >115 db. SDR should get there soon I expect. 73, Geoff GM4ESD ______________________________________________________________ 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