[Elecraft] Question about KNB2 Noise Blanker

2005-01-02 Thread Marinos Markomanolakis, M.D.
I do have to agree with the comments for the NB in the K2. I do have power 
line noise in my QTH which seems to be unaffected by the K2NB, especially 
when it falls below an S9 level, which sometimes can be the limiting factor 
in completing a QSO.
The majority of the time I have to engage the Preamp in order for the K2NB 
to start detecting the pulses, and at that level of Rx gain, the receiver 
may become overloaded by nearby strong signals if present.


From all other rigs that have come here at different times, only the NB in a 

TT Corsair 560 used to behave in a similar way.
In order of NB function, the best rigs I have tried so far are TS830, 930 
and Drake TR7.


For a receiver of the K2 caliber, I believe, it is worth every penny and 
construction effort, even if it means incorporating a pre-made surface 
mount module for the NB in order to improve on the NB area which seems to be 
suboptimal.
For example an expensive and/or difficult to build but optimized NB module 
will be FAR more desirable and effective feature in a real world Rx 
performance improvement rather than a similar DSP module that is already 
available from Elecraft.


These are my $.02 opinion about the NB, which may be the only area that 
needs some improvement in a radio that has no equal in the market today. And 
can definitely make a difference for people wanting to have a K2 as their 
only/main rig in a urban QTHas most of us live.


73,
Marinos, ki4gin


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Re: [Elecraft] Question about KNB2 Noise Blanker

2005-01-02 Thread Thom R. Lacosta

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Marinos Markomanolakis, M.D. wrote:

For example an expensive and/or difficult to build but optimized NB module 
will be FAR more desirable and effective feature in a real world Rx 
performance improvement rather than a similar DSP module that is already 
available from Elecraft.


These are my $.02 opinion about the NB, which may be the only area that needs 
some improvement in a radio that has no equal in the market today. And can 
definitely make a difference for people wanting to have a K2 as their 
only/main rig in a urban QTHas most of us live.


Couldn't agree more...I live in a very old part of the city here...surrounded by 
industrial users of power, a leaking power grid and a utility that doesn't care.


Since I've gotten back on the air the K2 sits on the desk, glaring at me because 
it's virtually useless with S9+ QRN.


If I'm lucky, I can operate between 2 AM and 6 AM, as long as I turn off the oil
burner since it too acts like an arc gap.

Thom

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Re: [Elecraft] Question about KNB2 Noise Blanker

2005-01-02 Thread Donald Nesbitt
Hi Thom.  Not to prolong the agony (I think that Wayne has already put this
on the list - hope it moves up to a high priority), but I have the same
problem as you do and for general power-line noise, my KNB2 is useless -
however, there is a certain pop, popping, frying noise that is S9+30 on 80
meters that it eliminates completely!!  Too bad I don't operate 80!

I'd be glad to beta test something if anyone's got some mods (yes, I already
tried changing the NB2 capacitor a number of times all to no avail).  Now
before anyone gets too terribly defensive, I've already rated my K2 as way
above my Pro II and the Mark V - but simply put, the noise blanker could use
some technical attention.  73 es Happy New Year --Don N4HH
K2/100/#2028/KPA100, etc. etc.

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 On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Marinos Markomanolakis, M.D. wrote:
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 Couldn't agree more...I live in a very old part of the city
here...surrounded by
 industrial users of power, a leaking power grid and a utility that doesn't
care.
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Re: [Elecraft] Question about KNB2 Noise Blanker

2005-01-02 Thread Bryce A. Carr
Partial repeat of Marinos Markomanolakis, M.D. 2 Jan/05

 For a receiver of the K2 caliber, I believe, it is worth every penny and
 construction effort, even if it means incorporating a pre-made surface
 mount module for the NB in order to improve on the NB area which seems to
be
 suboptimal.
 For example an expensive and/or difficult to build but optimized NB
module
 will be FAR more desirable and effective feature in a real world Rx
 performance improvement rather than a similar DSP module that is already
 available from Elecraft.

 These are my $.02 opinion about the NB, which may be the only area that
 needs some improvement in a radio that has no equal in the market today.
And
 can definitely make a difference for people wanting to have a K2 as their
 only/main rig in a urban QTHas most of us live.

 73,
 Marinos, ki4gin

Excellent Marinos. Thats what I wanted to say! I am using my K2 as my main
rig due to it's excellent features except when I must switch due to city
noise. I do, of course, have a variable gain preamp that I built for my
80/160 phased loops  that in turn feeds my K2 so I have plenty of rf  at the
blanker input.and the scope confirms it. There is nothing wrong with the
blanking pulse widths. This low level city hash is simply not triggering the
blanking mv due to other blanker problems.
With my old Kenwood TS-140S and other rigs I typically see a 3 S unit drop
in a S4 city noise floor and the weak ones jump out of it. We 160m noise
eaters would buy a good RF noise blanker even if the box was  twice the size
of the K2.  Aloha, Bryce, kh6at


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Re: [Elecraft] Question about KNB2 Noise Blanker

2005-01-01 Thread W3FPR - Don Wilhelm

See comments below:
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Question about KNB2 Noise Blanker 
(GainreductioninNB2 posit...




W3FPR replied to KH6AT that gated noise blankers cannot be expected
to work when the noise pulse is insufficient to reach the gating threshold
 that more signal might improve performance when blanking weak
noise.  Sounds reasonable, but...

I believe my other radios have gated noise blankers.  They behave far
better than the KNB2 in my K2 - even on noise that presumably is what
the KNB2 was designed for (chain saws, dirt bikes  similar stuff that
might be encountered by backpackers) - regardless of strength.

Outside of the type of noise the blanker is tailored for, why would it
be that a number of folks using one particular radio with a gated noise
blanker (K2 with KNB2) find the performance to be lacking compared to
other radios also with gated noise blankers?

OTOH, many have reported that the K2 blanker is better.  I don't know the 
real answer, but I can guess that the gain of a particular receiver ahead of 
the noise blanker would make a big difference.  Multi-conversion receiver 
designers have a lot more places to put the noise blanker (and more control 
over the gain at that point) than is possible in a single conversion 
receiver like the K2.  Try the K2 NB with the preamp set on to see if that 
makes any difference, you may be surprised.


73,
Don W3FPR 



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Re: [Elecraft] Question about KNB2 Noise Blanker

2005-01-01 Thread VR2BrettGraham

W3FPR added:


W3FPR replied to KH6AT that gated noise blankers cannot be expected
to work when the noise pulse is insufficient to reach the gating threshold
 that more signal might improve performance when blanking weak
noise.  Sounds reasonable, but...

I believe my other radios have gated noise blankers.  They behave far
better than the KNB2 in my K2 - even on noise that presumably is what
the KNB2 was designed for (chain saws, dirt bikes  similar stuff that
might be encountered by backpackers) - regardless of strength.

Outside of the type of noise the blanker is tailored for, why would it
be that a number of folks using one particular radio with a gated noise
blanker (K2 with KNB2) find the performance to be lacking compared to
other radios also with gated noise blankers?


OTOH, many have reported that the K2 blanker is better.  I don't know the 
real answer, but I can guess that the gain of a particular receiver ahead 
of the noise blanker would make a big difference.  Multi-conversion 
receiver designers have a lot more places to put the noise blanker (and 
more control over the gain at that point) than is possible in a single 
conversion receiver like the K2.  Try the K2 NB with the preamp set on to 
see if that makes any difference, you may be surprised.


My impression is that whenever there is mention of the KNB2, there are
more posts about its ineffectiveness than anything else, as is the case
with this current thread.

I cannot recall any other rig using anything other than a gated noise
blanker, including those with single conversion receivers, such as the
TS-820.  I do not have an 820 here, but from my recollection of using one
with a vertical in an urban W7 environment, its noise blanker performed
better overall than the KNB2 in my K2/100.

Combinations of PREAMP  NB LEVEL settings on the K2 here tends
to have one of two results: no effect on noise, or totally trashing the
receiver.  My current QTH is in the middle of a mixed residential/industrial
area, with garages  work yards just next door doing plenty of arc welding
 other unsociable electromagnetic activities going on all around me - the
KNB2 is useless on most of it  even my lowly IC-706 does better.

I would suggest it is more a matter of the design of the KNB2 than the
fact that the K2 is a single conversion receiver.  I would agree with you
that variation in gain between K2s may be part of the problem, though
that really comes back to the design in the first place (consistency,
repeatability  ease of assembly  alignment being desirable in any
product, even a kit).

I also suspect that there are other factors that are involved or at least
aggravate things, as I find the KNB2 to be especially useless during
times that the AGC is responding to out of band energy (the EU 17m
problem recently noted in a post here by a bloke in NA - I experience
this on 15, 17, 20  sometimes 30m).

But as the KNB2's performance continues to surface here from time
to time, there must be something behind it - we have enjoyed far
better performance from noise blankers in products with single, double
or however number of conversions in the receiver for decades.  I for
one hope that in any future products, Elecraft can improve upon this
 other attributes of their products that are lacking in comparison to
others on the market.

73, VR2BrettGraham

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Re: [Elecraft] Question about KNB2 Noise Blanker

2005-01-01 Thread VR2BrettGraham

[EMAIL PROTECTED] added:


Er, I think people who don't have any trouble with it have no
inclination to respond. While I don't think it's the best noise blanker
I've ever used, my K2 is unusuable at my urban location without it.


True - as well as folks who are fortunate not to need to use the noise
blanker much, if not at all (my situation when I first started using my
K2).


On the noise here (power line noise and also some weird industrial
electrical noise) the noise blanker on the K2 works better than the
noise blanker on the IC-706MKIIG.


I am frustrated this morning in not being able to measure the duration
of the noise pulses I have on 15 that the KNB2 will not touch but a
TS-950S' blanker does, which I suspect is from a power line as things
have been very cold  dry here (3-11C  30-40% RH) recently.  As the
bands are not so good, I do not have constant S-meter indication from
out of band energy, so the noise amp should not be choked by the
AGC.  Is it not triggering, or is it that the noise gate is not triggered to
coincide with the pulses?  It is like it does nothing  this is the kind of
noise that from my experience is well within the capability of noise
blankers of other radios.

My KNB2 has blanked noise (so it probably is working normally), but is
very finicky about what it will work on.  It is likely I would not be able to
hear much of anything with my K2 from where I operate in 9M6, as last
time I was there there was S9 noise just like this everywhere.  This is
unfortunate, as there are other attributes of the K2 that are far superior
to my other equipment.

73, VR2BrettGraham

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Re: [Elecraft] Question about KNB2 Noise Blanker

2005-01-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 05:20:19PM -0800, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
 On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, VR2BrettGraham wrote:
 
 My impression is that whenever there is mention of the KNB2, there are
 more posts about its ineffectiveness than anything else, as is the case
 with this current thread.
 
 Er, I think people who don't have any trouble with it have no
 inclination to respond. While I don't think it's the best noise blanker
 I've ever used, my K2 is unusuable at my urban location without it.
 
 On the noise here (power line noise and also some weird industrial
 electrical noise) the noise blanker on the K2 works better than the
 noise blanker on the IC-706MKIIG.

Being in a semi-rural environment, I find that I don't have too many
times when the KNB2 is needed.  When the occasion does occur, it seems
to no less effective than the noise blanker on my TS-570D.  

Although it is designed for a different noise characteristic, I find
that the noise reduction of the KDSP2 is much more effective than that
of the TS-570D. 

Bob Nielsen, N7XY
Bainbridge Island, WA




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Re: [Elecraft] Question about KNB2 Noise Blanker

2005-01-01 Thread BobDobson
For what it's worth, with just one button press, my KNB2 will blank out
some pretty ugly pulse noise where I live that the blanker in my Ten-Tec
Orion only barely touches.  Not bad for one dinky little board, in my
opinion.

73 all,

Bob  WA4FOM
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Re: [Elecraft] Question about KNB2 Noise Blanker (Gain reductioninNB2 posit...

2004-12-31 Thread Bryce A. Carr
Hi Don,
I agree, but as Mike, KK5F,  pointed out, and I also noticed with my old
TS-830S and TS-140S, when using the same receive only phased loops both of
those rigs work fine at that low level and the K2, even with K2 preamp on,
doesn't.
 It would be a better idea to put more gain in series with the NB pulse amp
and put a nb level control on it so it will work as well as the antique
gear.
I have dxcc on 160m from a city lot and noise blankers are a big thing in my
life. Hi.
  Aloha,
   .Bryce, kh6at
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From: W3FPR - Don Wilhelm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Bryce A. Carr [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mike Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Question about KNB2 Noise Blanker (Gain
reductioninNB2 posit...


 Bryce,

 Certainly, when the noise pulse is not strong enough to reach the gating
 threshold, no blanking will occur.
 The solution is to add a preamplifier.  In some cases it will be
sufficient
 to just turn on the preamplifier in the K2, it does depend on the Rx
antenna
 output level.

 Any gated noise blanker will have similar behavior, it is not unique to
the
 K2 implementation.

 73,
 Don W3FPR

 - Original Message -

  Amen! The K2 NB is particularly poor when using low level rx only ants
as
  noise pulses are heard in audio, but are not adequate strength to
trigger
  the blanking mv.
   Aloha,
 Bryce, kh6at





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[Elecraft] Question about KNB2 Noise Blanker (Gain reduction in NB2 position)

2004-12-30 Thread Ken G3WCS

Hello all,

I just completed the KNB2 and added it to my K2 transceiver.

All menu indications are as they should be and the blanker seems to be 
working correctly in the NB1 mode at both HI and LO THR settings. The 
receiver gain seems normal.


I have a question about using the noise blanker in the NB2 mode. Is it 
normal to see a big reduction in gain through the receiver? When I 
switch to NB2, either HI or LO THR, band noise and all signals drop by 
quite a few S points.


I have checked the board and don't see any errors. Before I dig deeper 
into this I'd be grateful for any comments about overall RX gain when 
using NB2.


If gain should be unaffected, I would be grateful for any pointers of 
where to look.


Many thanks.


Ken.

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Re: [Elecraft] Question about KNB2 Noise Blanker (Gain reduction in NB2 posit...

2004-12-30 Thread Stewart Baker
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 05:46:52 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi Ken,

 This effect of gain reduction when NB2 is selected does not happen on  my K2.

 A question is are you receiving large doses of noise that the  blanker is
 removing as the operation of a noise blankers is to cut out the  affected
 section?
 If the noise is severe enough this can result in distortion and  reduction of
 signal.

 You can check this by disconnecting the antenna and observing a signal from
 an RF generator under the same test.

 Took quite a time before I could even say my NB was even working. Only  works
 with the right kind of noise such as ignition interference. Shades of
 British Rail and their problems with the wrong kind of leaves on the railway
 lines!

 Regards,
 Bob, G3VVT
 K2 #4168
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Hi Ken,

No loss of signal when switching in my NB, but it is very selective
on what type of noise it blanks.

73
Stewart G3RXQ

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Re: [Elecraft] Question about KNB2 Noise Blanker (Gain reduction in NB2 posit...

2004-12-30 Thread Ken G3WCS

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Hi Ken,
 
This effect of gain reduction when NB2 is selected does not happen on my K2.


Hi Chaps.


Thanks to all for the replies.

I have fixed the problem now. It was the 2N7000 FET (Q6) on the KNB2 
board. I used an anti-static wrist strap and mat during construction so 
thought ESD protection was OK. Maybe faulty from the start. Maybe me. 
Who knows?


Anyway, working correctly on both NB1 and NB2 now with no reduction of 
gain. Just need to find another 2N7000 for my XV60 board.


Thanks again and Happy New Year.

Ken.

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Re: [Elecraft] Question about KNB2 Noise Blanker (Gain reduction in NB2 posit...

2004-12-30 Thread Mike Morrow
Stewart wrote:

No loss of signal when switching in my NB, but it is very selective
on what type of noise it blanks.

The very simple noise blankers of the K1 and K2 seem to help only on ignition, 
motor commutator, and other such similar noise.  These blankers seem completely 
ineffective on all of the various types of power line noise I've encountered, 
unlike the more sophisticated blankers in most other rigs produced in the past 
25 years.   The blankers in my ancient 22-year-old TS-430 and 11-year-old TS-50 
work wonders in comparison.

Maybe it's time for a re-design of the Elecraft blanker system.

73,
Mike / KK5F


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Re: [Elecraft] Question about KNB2 Noise Blanker (Gain reduction in NB2 posit...

2004-12-30 Thread AC6JA
I've had the opposite luck.  My K2 takes out local electrical noise  and 
ignition noise where my TS-570S and IC-746 noise blankers didn't do a  thing.  
I've been very happy with the noise blanker in my K2 and think  that's been the 
best option for the buck!
 
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Re: [Elecraft] Question about KNB2 Noise Blanker (Gain reduction inNB2 posit...

2004-12-30 Thread Douglas Westover
I find the KNB2 in my K2 to be very effective on the usual type
of powerline noise I encounter. However there is a variant,
which sounds the same to the ear, that the blanker won't
touch. I don't have a 'scope so can't look at what the
difference in waveform might be, but in general I am
quite pleased with the blanker. That, plus the NR mode
of the KDSP2 provides really good noise reduction.

Doug
W6JD
K2/100 #1626

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 I've had the opposite luck.  My K2 takes out local electrical noise  and
 ignition noise where my TS-570S and IC-746 noise blankers didn't do a
thing.
 I've been very happy with the noise blanker in my K2 and think  that's
been the
 best option for the buck!

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Re: [Elecraft] Question about KNB2 Noise Blanker (Gain reduction inNB2 posit...

2004-12-30 Thread Bryce A. Carr
Amen! The K2 NB is particularly poor when using low level rx only ants as
noise pulses are heard in audio, but are not adequate strength to trigger
the blanking mv.
  Aloha,
Bryce, kh6at
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From: Mike Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 6:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Question about KNB2 Noise Blanker (Gain reduction
inNB2 posit...


 Stewart wrote:

 No loss of signal when switching in my NB, but it is very selective
 on what type of noise it blanks.

 The very simple noise blankers of the K1 and K2 seem to help only on
ignition, motor commutator, and other such similar noise.  These blankers
seem completely ineffective on all of the various types of power line noise
I've encountered, unlike the more sophisticated blankers in most other rigs
produced in the past 25 years.   The blankers in my ancient 22-year-old
TS-430 and 11-year-old TS-50 work wonders in comparison.

 Maybe it's time for a re-design of the Elecraft blanker system.

 73,
 Mike / KK5F


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