Re: K3 Noise Reduction Improvement

[Dan Atchison]

 I'd have to agree with you, Roy.

In a moment of weakness many months ago, I purchased an IC-7600.  While it's a nice radio, it is NOT a K3 nor would I ever use it in a contest or try fighting a pile-up with it (unless it was the only radio available).  That said, with all the 7600's lackluster features, the Noise Reduction (NR) on the ICOM far, even greatly exceeds the NR in the K3.  The noise reduction itself, the quality of (remaining) signal (QoS), and its ease of use is a marvel and my benchmark NR behavior.  While in the K3 you can usually find a decent NR setting, by no means is it easily configurable with it's convoluted algorithm scheme nor is the resultant QoS as clean.

My opinion only; YMMV.

73,
Dan -- N3ND



 
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:27:56 -0500
From: "Roy Morris" <[hidden email]>
Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Noise Reduction Performance
To: <[hidden email]>


I have two K3s and the NR is the same on both.  If I had to identify a feature
on the K3 that needs improvement, I would have to say it is the NR.  I cannot
find a noise reduction setting that is suitable to me.  I realize this is a
subjective, and you would have to compare the K3s noise reduction with that of
another radio.  I have owned the Ten-Tec Omni VII which in my opinion has the
best NR on SSB without a doubt.  I believe it is all in the NR programming and
how the algorithms are set up.  There has been considerable improvement from the
time the K3 was introduced, but I believe there is still room for further
improvement.  I would like to see noise reduction with a minimum loss of signal
fidelity.    Roy Morris  W4WFB


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[Johnny Siu]

Hello Dan,

I share the same observation for NR of my IC7600.  If K3 had the same 'manual
notch within AGC loop' as that in IC7600, I would rate my K3 even higher in the
rank.
 cheers,


Johnny VR2XMC



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主題： Re: [Elecraft] K3 Noise Reduction Improvement


I'd have to agree with you, Roy.

In a moment of weakness many months ago, I purchased an IC-7600.  While it's a
nice radio, it is NOT a K3 nor would I ever use it in a contest or try fighting
a pile-up with it (unless it was the only radio available).  That said, with all
the 7600's lackluster features, the Noise Reduction (NR) on the ICOM far, even
greatly exceeds the NR in the K3.  The noise reduction itself, the quality of
(remaining) signal (QoS), and its ease of use is a marvel and my benchmark NR
behavior.  While in the K3 you can usually find a decent NR setting, by no means
is it easily configurable with it's convoluted algorithm scheme nor is the
resultant QoS as clean.

My opinion only; YMMV.

73,
Dan -- N3ND




Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:27:56 -0500
From: "Roy Morris" <[hidden email]>
Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Noise Reduction Performance
To: <[hidden email]>


I have two K3s and the NR is the same on both.  If I had to identify a feature
on the K3 that needs improvement, I would have to say it is the NR.  I cannot
find a noise reduction setting that is suitable to me.  I realize this is a
subjective, and you would have to compare the K3s noise reduction with that of
another radio.  I have owned the Ten-Tec Omni VII which in my opinion has the
best NR on SSB without a doubt.  I believe it is all in the NR programming and
how the algorithms are set up.  There has been considerable improvement from the

time the K3 was introduced, but I believe there is still room for further
improvement.  I would like to see noise reduction with a minimum loss of signal
fidelity.    Roy Morris  W4WFB


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