P3 and averaging - dillemma or no problem?

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P3 and averaging - dillemma or no problem?

Ignacy
With averaging, P3 reads some 10db below in SSB than without averaging. Seems logical as average SSB signal is 10db below the peak. Pressing PEAK show the real peak, and it agrees with my K3 after calibration.

So one question is what to do with P3 that shows less with averaging?

1. Document and do not worry; PEAK can always be turned on. Too complicated "fixes" may backfire as we actually want to see the average strength with averaging.

2. Add a peak display to the current one, perhaps with some hold time as in AGC HLD.  
 
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Re: P3 and averaging - dillemma or no problem?

Dave, G4AON
I have raised this issue with Alan (N1AL), on SSB signals below about S9
they average out to little more than a few dB above the noise floor yet
look quite good with the peak enabled. Like you suggest a peak facility
where the reading decays after a few seconds would be very useful, in
addition when peak is enabled the yellow trace loses it's averaging and
is visually very distracting... I would prefer the trace to still be
smoothed by averaging when displaying peak or perhaps even better would
be to turn off the normal yellow trace when peak with a decay is selected?

73 Dave, G4AON

Ignacy wrote:
 >So one question is what to do with P3 that shows less with averaging?
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