Re: Fwd: [Elecraft] Sherwood on Roofing Filters, Transmitted IMD and Receiver Performance

2008-03-12 Thread Vic K2VCO
Ed K1EP wrote: I think that that comment was taken out of context. In his talk, I believe that he remarked that some xtals lacked quality control. I think it was said or implied that both the manufacturing process and testing process wasn't always perfect and that some xtals in the filters had

Fwd: [Elecraft] Sherwood on Roofing Filters, Transmitted IMD and Receiver Performance

2008-03-12 Thread Ed K1EP
I think that that comment was taken out of context. In his talk, I believe that he remarked that some xtals lacked quality control. I think it was said or implied that both the manufacturing process and testing process wasn't always perfect and that some xtals in the filters had some contaminatio

Re: [Elecraft] Sherwood on Roofing Filters,Transmitted IMD and Receiver Performance

2008-03-12 Thread Barry N1EU
K3KO wrote: > > It was good to see reported in one place that both the transmit and RX > performance of rigs has gotten progressively worse, until recently. > I agree. However, it's hard to generalize on a downward trend of RX performance - if you look at his numbers, RX dynamic range per

Re: [Elecraft] Sherwood on Roofing Filters,Transmitted IMD and Receiver Performance

2008-03-12 Thread K3KO
One thing stuck out. "Inserting filters in one direction in his testing for some rigs resulted in an 8db difference relative to the opposite direction in a performance parameter." Are K3 filters properly polarized so this won't happen? Has the filter technology improved so this isn't an issue?

Re: [Elecraft] Sherwood on Roofing Filters,Transmitted IMD and Receiver Performance

2008-03-11 Thread Bill W4ZV
Bill W4ZV wrote: > > > Rob Sherwood's recent Boulder ARC presentation > > http://www.sherweng.com/ > Some of Rob's best comments are in the discussion following the formal talk. It will take a long time to listen to it all of but it's well worthwhile! 73, Bill -- View this message in c

[Elecraft] Sherwood on Roofing Filters,Transmitted IMD and Receiver Performance

2008-03-11 Thread Bill W4ZV
Rob Sherwood's recent Boulder ARC presentation, slides in .ppt or .pdf and audio in .mp3, are now available on his website. This is a very good primer for anyone interested in the above issues. Download both and you can view the slides while listening to the audio. http://www.sherweng.com/ 73,