k3 - what are your settings?

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k3 - what are your settings?

johnny-52
Hello Group,

Under the firmware 1.41, the NR is far better than the KDSP2 in K2.  What kinds of NR settings are you using?  I only use 'NR 0' and it seems working well.

BTW, when to use the IF Noise blanker and when to the DSP IF blanker?

I am using a dynamic moving coil hand mic from Adzen, Japan.  The TX EQ settings at  3.2K + 1db, 2.4K + 2db, the rest are 0db.  I get good audio reports.  How about your settings?

I would like to make sure that I am familiar with all the goodies of K3 before doing an A/B comparison with my IC7800.

73

Johnny Siu VR2XMC
K3# 46
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Re: k3 - what are your settings?

Vic K2VCO
johnny wrote:

> Under the firmware 1.41, the NR is far better than the KDSP2 in K2.
> What kinds of NR settings are you using?  I only use 'NR 0' and it
> seems working well.

I have been using 0 also. It seems to work. Since the NR has been
temporarily turned off, it may be improved when it returns.

> BTW, when to use the IF Noise blanker and when to the DSP IF blanker?

I have never found the IF NB to be necessary -- the DSP blanker has done
the job for me with all the noise I've encountered. The IF blanker works
pre-selectivity, which makes it effective against very strong, very
short, noise pulses. The downside is that it can be affected by strong
signals outside of the passband. This does not happen to the DSP
blanker. The only thing I've noticed is that at higher settings (I use
T2-6 and T2-7 a lot), it makes CW signals sound like slow-starting
crystal oscillators.

> I am using a dynamic moving coil hand mic from Adzen, Japan.  The TX
> EQ settings at  3.2K + 1db, 2.4K + 2db, the rest are 0db.  I get good
> audio reports.  How about your settings?

I'm a CW guy, but I did some tests with knowledgeable SSB operators and
ended up reducing the two lowest bands all the way (-16db each), the
next one -6 db, and then increasing the top two by 4 db. This was with a
Heil HC-5 element. I don't know if there was any output from the mic in
the lowest ranges, but those frequencies aren't helpful, so I took them
out just in case.

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73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco
K3 no. 00007
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