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Richard Thorpe

Digital Noise Reduction

I find even the lowest level (1 -1) on the noise reduction is too
aggressive especially with weak signals. You can learn to love
digital noise reduction, I had an NIR 10 and used judiciously was very
helpful. This morning trying to work a station in Senegal 6W2SC, I
wished the NR was a little less or more adjustable. Maybe a future
software upgrade.

R Thorpe AC9D
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Ruben Navarro Huedo-2

Re: Digital Noise Reduction

I think the same about NR.
It is great in CW, but a little "aggressive" with SSB.
My K3 is only 1 month old, is possible after more time i like it also on
ssb.

El 15/02/2010 22:42, Richard Thorpe escribió:

> I find even the lowest level (1 -1) on the noise reduction is too
> aggressive especially with weak signals. You can learn to love
> digital noise reduction, I had an NIR 10 and used judiciously was very
> helpful. This morning trying to work a station in Senegal 6W2SC, I
> wished the NR was a little less or more adjustable. Maybe a future
> software upgrade.
>
> R Thorpe AC9D
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Joe Planisky

Re: Digital Noise Reduction

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Have you tried F5-1?

Remember that there are two completely different sets of NR settings.
1-1 through 4-4 use a different algorithm than 5-1 through 8-4. You
might find that you prefer one set over the other.

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On Feb 15, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Richard Thorpe wrote:

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N2TK

Re: K3 - Digital Noise Reduction

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Richard, I agree with you. The NR is still not quite up to snuff, at least
my mind. It is my one ongoing pet peeve. I think it is too aggressive for
the lowest settings too. I still favor the way Icon does it with a
continuous variable control starting out with little NR and increasing
without gong through banks of settings.
Maybe in theory the banks work and are helpful. But in a contest I favor the
Icom method. I don't think I have been able yet to turn on the NR to pull
out a weak one better than listening without it on.
Maybe someday?

73,
N2TK, Tony
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I find even the lowest level (1 -1) on the noise reduction is too
aggressive especially with weak signals. You can learn to love
digital noise reduction, I had an NIR 10 and used judiciously was very
helpful. This morning trying to work a station in Senegal 6W2SC, I
wished the NR was a little less or more adjustable. Maybe a future
software upgrade.

R Thorpe AC9D
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The Smiths

Re: K3 - Digital Noise Reduction

I'm not sure if you're using SSB or CW, but I have to completely and utterly disagree with you both on this. The NR for CW, in MY opinion is NOT aggressive enough. Back around Firmware Version 2.22 (before they really started messing with the NR) it used to work VERY VERY Well, almost like a noise gate. It was instant (going from one setting to the other had NO filter build up time), and it wouldn't cause the audio to drop out when you adjusted the Width control in a QSO. (That just drives me Freaking BATTY!)
Lyle told me that he wasn't able to go back to the way it used to be Circa late 2008, why I'm not exactly sure, but that being the case, I have to say that 1-1, 1-3, and some times 2-3 work fairly well for me.. even though they're not what they used to be.

Now, if you're talking about SSB, I would appreciate that you play around with the 5-1 through 8-4 adjustments and kindly leave my hardly working 1-1 through 4-4 (cw mode) NR filters as they are... well, that is, unless Lyle can figure out how to get it back to the way it used to be!

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> To: [hidden email]
> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:14:22 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 - Digital Noise Reduction
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> Richard, I agree with you. The NR is still not quite up to snuff, at least
> my mind. It is my one ongoing pet peeve. I think it is too aggressive for
> the lowest settings too. I still favor the way Icon does it with a
> continuous variable control starting out with little NR and increasing
> without gong through banks of settings.
> Maybe in theory the banks work and are helpful. But in a contest I favor the
> Icom method. I don't think I have been able yet to turn on the NR to pull
> out a weak one better than listening without it on.
> Maybe someday?
>
> 73,
> N2TK, Tony
> #311
> #1435
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Richard Thorpe
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 4:43 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [Elecraft] Digital Noise Reduction
>
> I find even the lowest level (1 -1) on the noise reduction is too
> aggressive especially with weak signals. You can learn to love
> digital noise reduction, I had an NIR 10 and used judiciously was very
> helpful. This morning trying to work a station in Senegal 6W2SC, I
> wished the NR was a little less or more adjustable. Maybe a future
> software upgrade.
>
> R Thorpe AC9D
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