Re: P3 "Tuning Noise"

Posted by Alan Bloom on Oct 27, 2011; 6:55pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/P3-Tuning-Noise-tp6934706p6937651.html

Note that the P3 only turns off averaging when tuning if it is in
tracking mode.  It doesn't happen in fixed-tune mode.

Alan N1AL


On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 11:28 -0700, Fred Jensen wrote:

> Thanks, that's it!  The higher I set the averaging, the more I see the
> effect since the band noise on the baseline gets compressed with more
> averaging.
>
> 73,
>
> Fred K6DGW
> - Northern California Contest Club
> - CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012
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> On 10/26/2011 5:41 PM, Grant Youngman wrote:
> > What you see in the display when not tuning is the time-averaged
> > noise (or signal), depending on how you have the averaging parameter
> > set. When you're tuning rapidly the P3 can't average, so the level
> > appears to rise.  It's rising toward the actual peak noise level.
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