K3 S-meters, db and noise

[Jeff Wandling W7BRS]

I can't take it anymore, I'm putting a strip of electrical tape over the
upper left patch of the LCD.   I can no longer bear to look.   Everyone
gets S9!


-jeff


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[dave.wilburn]

I have to agree.  I understand everyone uses the radio in their own
way.  But I have been a bit dumbfounded by the fascination with the
S-meter.  I do not see where any S-meter readings are mentioned below...

R = READABILITY
1 -- Unreadable
2 -- Barely readable, occasional words distinguishable
3 -- Readable with considerable difficulty
4 -- Readable with practically no difficulty
5 -- Perfectly readable

S = SIGNAL STRENGTH
1 -- Faint signals, barely perceptible
2 -- Very weak signals
3 -- Weak signals
4 -- Fair signals
5 -- Fairly good signals
6 -- Good signals
7 -- Moderately strong signals
8 -- Strong signals
9 -- Extremely strong signals

T = TONE
1 -- Sixty cycle a.c. or less, very rough and broad
2 -- Very rough a.c. , very harsh and broad
3 -- Rough a.c. tone, rectified but not filtered
4 -- Rough note, some trace of filtering
5 -- Filtered rectified a.c. but strongly ripple-modulated
6 -- Filtered tone, definite trace of ripple modulation
7 -- Near pure tone, trace of ripple modulation
8 -- Near perfect tone, slight trace of modulation
9 -- Perfect tone, no trace of ripple or modulation of any kind

David Wilburn
NM4M
http://www.nm4m.com




Jeff Wandling W7BRS wrote:

>
> I can't take it anymore, I'm putting a strip of electrical tape over the
> upper left patch of the LCD.   I can no longer bear to look.   Everyone
> gets S9!
>
>
> -jeff
>
>
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[Jan Erik Holm]

Oh I hope I can get a S9 from you also if my signals makes
it all the way to the USA.
Look for me in the CQWW, if good propagation I might be single
band 80m otherwise I´ll be moving around the bands, then you
will work another K3.

73 Jim SM2EKM
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Jeff Wandling W7BRS wrote:
>
> I can't take it anymore, I'm putting a strip of electrical tape over the
> upper left patch of the LCD.   I can no longer bear to look.   Everyone
> gets S9!
>
>
> -jeff
>


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