Re: [Elecraft] Best way to use NB and NR?

2011-10-01 Thread tomb18
Thanks for the great explanations. -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Best-way-to-use-NB-and-NR-tp6844498p6851035.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list

Re: [Elecraft] Best way to use NB and NR?

2011-09-30 Thread lyle johnson
This is true of the hardware blanker in the K3. The DSP blanker works on a different principle, in part because the noise pulse has potentially been "stretched" by the selectivity of the roofing filter. In the DSP blanker, for the duration of the noise pulse, a locally generated signal is subs

Re: [Elecraft] Best way to use NB and NR?

2011-09-29 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
As usual, Don's explanation is dead on. There's one more point to make about the noise blanker. Because it switches the receive path off and on to product those holes were the noise pulse would otherwise come through, it is a "mixer". That is, any signals in the signal path that are being switche

Re: [Elecraft] Best way to use NB and NR?

2011-09-29 Thread Dan Sherwood
As a brand new K3 user, I find some of the NR DSP settings quite perplexing. In working some nets, e.g. MARS, I've found some stations' audio almost totally suppressed, while others enhanced. Unfortunately, this process is not consistent, but changes as the "noise picture" changes. Trial and error

Re: [Elecraft] Best way to use NB and NR?

2011-09-29 Thread ROBERT HARMON
Wow Don, great explanation ! Bob K6UJ On Sep 29, 2011, at 8:51 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: > The K3 noise blanker, and in fact any noise blanker works by producing > "holes" in the receive path. That is what blanking means - if an > impulse is detected, it shuts off the receive path for a spe

Re: [Elecraft] Best way to use NB and NR?

2011-09-29 Thread Don Wilhelm
The K3 noise blanker, and in fact any noise blanker works by producing "holes" in the receive path. That is what blanking means - if an impulse is detected, it shuts off the receive path for a specified period of time. That will not "take away" from the reception of faint signals, but if comb

[Elecraft] Best way to use NB and NR?

2011-09-29 Thread tomb18
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could give me some hints as to the best way to use the NB and the NR? Most of the time I use the nr and there seems to be little effect of the nb (maybe one-two s units?) Does the nb take away from faint signals? If not should I always just use it? Thanks -- Vi