Hi, Vic, thanks for the reply. I was fairly certainly that the crowd of large signals had something to do with this, but had never observed this before. Probably because my other HF rig's blanker doesn't really "blank"
The K2 blanker has become indispensable in my semi-urban environment. 73 de David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vic Rosenthal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The NB can produce spurious signals when there are loud signals on the band. In > the contest, there were so many loud signals that the usual symptom -- sort of a > brapp brapp that follows the keying of the strong signal was replaced with an > almost continuous noise. In order for a noise blanker to work it needs to pick > up signals over a wide bandwidth. Turning on the noise blanker has a very > severe effect on the receiver's dynamic range, which is why it's possible to > turn it off! > _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
