Re: [Elecraft] K3 S-meter reading and coax input or antenna voltage ?

2019-01-23 Thread Wes

At the antenna spigot.

On 1/23/2019 10:00 AM, Phil Hystad via Elecraft wrote:

If I had an S-meter reading, S9 for example, on my K3, what could I infer about 
the voltage level of that signal at the Coax input to my K3?

A table I found on the Internet for singals below 30 MHz says that an S-9 meter 
reading is a signal of 50-microvolts but where in the system is that 
registering 50 microvolts.  At the input the K3 or some other circuit within 
the K3?

Thanks -- just mostly curious about this and the connection between S-meter 
reading and actual signals input to the receiver.

73, phil, K7PEH


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Re: [Elecraft] K3 S-meter reading and coax input or antenna voltage ?

2019-01-23 Thread Lyle Johnson

Phil,

With the original K3, S Meter "ABS" mode the S meter is referenced to 
the signal level at the antenna jack.  S9 = -73 dBm = 50 uV into 50 ohms.


In the other S Meter mode, the reading varies with ATT and PRE settings, 
as well as signal level.


73,

Lyle KK7P

On 1/23/19 10:00 AM, Phil Hystad via Elecraft wrote:

If I had an S-meter reading, S9 for example, on my K3, what could I infer about 
the voltage level of that signal at the Coax input to my K3?

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