A request to Wayne - K3S NR firmware mod.

[IK4EWX]

 To Wayne and his Elecraft crew:

I am an ultra satisfied cw user of a Elecraft K3S ( that I use with P3 and two SP3).

The only things that I dont like are:
- the noise blanker - i havent found situations where it help - or I am unable to use it, even if I tried lot of settings…

- the NOISE REDUCTOR, that first times I thought it help barely, but after some time I found that it simply need to be reset (simple OFF-ON) at band noise changing  time after time and it work well.

About the NB I dont ask anything ( I simply accept that it doesn’t work),

but about NR - Noise Reductor I ask you that with next firmware modifications you introduce an automatic NR reset ( at least every 5 minutes a ciclic OFF-ON, it simply improve a lot its results)

Many thanks.

73 es gl,
Ian IK4EWX
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[Rick Tavan-2]

Noise blankers are difficult to design and to use. They work by blanking
out the receiver during noise pulses. The user defines what is a noise
pulse and how aggressively to blank it by adjusting the NB parameters. If
you don't blank out enough, you still hear the noise. If the signal is
below that noise, you won't hear it. If you blank out too much, you lose so
much real signal that it is no longer possible to copy or to copy
comfortably. *I have had very good results with the NB in the K3 on some
kinds of human-made noise.* Other noises seem to have too high a duty cycle
or signal strength to be effectively blanked. Your noise sources may be in
that category. I don't think it is fair to say the K3 NB "doesn't work." It
certainly does work on many kinds of noise. No NB that I have tried or
heard of can work on all kinds of noise.

73,

/Rick N6XI


Rick Tavan
Truckee, CA

On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 8:12 AM, Gian Luca Cazzola <[hidden email]>
wrote:

>  To Wayne and his Elecraft crew:
>
> I am an ultra satisfied cw user of a Elecraft K3S ( that I use with P3 and
> two SP3).
>
> The only things that I dont like are:
> - the noise blanker - i havent found situations where it help - or I am
> unable to use it, even if I tried lot of settings…
>
> - the NOISE REDUCTOR, that first times I thought it help barely, but after
> some time I found that it simply need to be reset (simple OFF-ON) at band
> noise changing  time after time and it work well.
>
> About the NB I dont ask anything ( I simply accept that it doesn’t work),
>
> but about NR - Noise Reductor I ask you that with next firmware
> modifications you introduce an automatic NR reset ( at least every 5
> minutes a ciclic OFF-ON, it simply improve a lot its results)
>
> Many thanks.
>
> 73 es gl,
> Ian IK4EWX
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