S meter...what's an S meter?? 



Doug 

W6JD 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Roycraft" <w...@comcast.net> 
To: "Elecraft" <Elecraft@mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2009 12:08:52 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 and XG-2 

I was beginning to think that I was the only one who never looks at the 
S-Meter :-) 

73, Ted, W2ZK 

Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft wrote: 
> Adding the XG2 signal generator the K3 is not only f/w. It would require 
> a major h/w change. We will not be doing that in the near future due to 
> both cost and engineering availability. 
> 
> In general, the S-Meter calibration feature is an excellent enhancement, 
> but not totally necessary for normal use of the K3. We shipped thousands 
> of K3s before adding this.  In general most ham rigs are all over the 
> map in their S-Meter accuracy. We added this cal feature so those so 
> interested could further enhance the K3s accuracy to be one of the best 
> out there. :-) 
> 
> 73, Eric  WA6HHQ 
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