Re: [Elecraft] K3 RX in real world

2015-09-15 Thread Guy Olinger K2AV
One thing I notice with better and better RX with less and much less RX generated cr*p, is that TX/amp generated cr*p is presented quite a bit clearer with much less disguise. Once upon a time that was all "band noise" to us. Ain't clarity interesting? What is really cool is to listen to an SSB pi

Re: [Elecraft] K3 RX in real world

2015-09-15 Thread Wes (N7WS)
When you turn on the noise blanker, all bets are off. On 9/15/2015 2:50 PM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: Exactly. Get on during CQWW. I could hear interesting transmitter widths from people half a continent away and interesting effects in my receiver as well (mostly noise blanker effects). I hear

Re: [Elecraft] K3 RX in real world

2015-09-15 Thread Hisashi T Fujinaka
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Jim Brown wrote: On Tue,9/15/2015 1:29 PM, Bill wrote: the technical performance differences between the top rigs can only be discerned in a "copper" room. That is definitely not true. Digging weak ones out in a big contest, or with a close by ham neighbor, will tell yo

Re: [Elecraft] K3 RX in real world

2015-09-15 Thread Jim Brown
On Tue,9/15/2015 1:29 PM, Bill wrote: the technical performance differences between the top rigs can only be discerned in a "copper" room. That is definitely not true. Digging weak ones out in a big contest, or with a close by ham neighbor, will tell you right away. An inferior dirty radio a

Re: [Elecraft] K3 RX in real world

2015-09-15 Thread Bill
Real World - that is all that really counts. All the testing and arguing that has been appearing of late is great, if you are a numbers cruncher and chart maker. But, to my thinking - the technical performance differences between the top rigs can only be discerned in a "copper" room. Real worl

Re: [Elecraft] K3 RX in real world

2015-09-15 Thread Jim Brown
On Tue,9/15/2015 11:35 AM, Hank P wrote: I do really wonder what I would notice with KSYN3As on my main /sub rx - I live in a “field of RF noise” even before the big guns. I DO really like both main and sub rx now truly being fed by same LO. It won't help a bit when the other guy(s) are di

Re: [Elecraft] K3 RX in real world

2015-09-15 Thread Hank P
I held this for three days deciding whether to send it or not – here ‘tis. I went from TT Orion - 3 of them at various times - to K3 . I was more than a little concerned by size and Hold/Tap functions etc - I read all the stuff from Sherwood ,keep reading stories here about KSYN3A wonders. He