While I've never met a Noise Reduction implementation that I've liked on
SSB, I'll confess to not had broad exposure to a lot of different ones.
However, I'll join you in your finding on the Noise Blankers. I've only
found the trade-off between Noise Blanking and distortion introduced to be
occasionally satisfactory and then typically only at low level settings.
One sign of hope is that the hardware blanker is on a separate plug-in
board, though I don't recall every having seen any mention of design changes
to that.
As well, I find the Notch Filters less than satisfactory. The Manual Notch
is not sharp.the bottom is flat and wide. The Auto-Notch often imparts
Barrel-like acoustics which I find annoying.
An email query about possible improvements to the Noise Blankers and Notch
Filters sent to a member of the design team received no reply.
In a rig designed to set the bar when it comes to 'the numbers,' it's a
shame that the performance of these basic features of Noise Blanking and
Notch Filtering is lacking.
Is there yet hope?
73,
Dick - KA5KKT
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Am I the only one who find it difficult to use the Noise Blanker and Noise
Reduction controls on the K3? Maybe it can't be improved but it sure
doesn't work as well as the Ft5000. In my noisy location it sure would be
nice if these two features on the K3 could be improved.
73, W0SZ
______________________________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list
Home:
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraftHelp:
http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htmPost: mailto:
[hidden email]
This list hosted by:
http://www.qsl.netPlease help support this email list:
http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Locked
