Yes, that is exactly what I understand now. The GRANULARITY of the display is higher or lower depending on the s;oce of bandwidth selected and displayed on the screen. The narrower the slice, the smaller the granularity. I thought the P3 was like the old fashioned external VFO units that took over the frequency generation on the rig. It is not, its just a read out.
I'm straight on this now. Shouldn't try to multitask too much at work :) Not enough cycles delegated to groking the information. -lu- -----Original Message----- From: Don Wilhelm [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 2:50 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] P3: a modest proposal for QSY Lu, I don't think the accuracy is a problem, it is the rounding of the frequency that is displayed on the P3 - that is simply resolution of the frequency indicated. At least that is my understanding from a perusal of the P3 manual. The screen is continuous, but a frequency of 7035.265 displayed on the K3 will be 7035.3 on the P3 In fact, any frequency between 7035.250 and 7035.349 will show up on the P3 as 7035.3 If there are several signals in that 100 Hertz span, you should be able to point to one of them and click - the K3 should show the low order digits, the P3 will not. 73, Don W3FPR Lu Romero wrote: > So now I am getting a much better understanding... > > What Joe W4TV is saying is that a P3 is "never more than 50 > cycles" from the K3 frequency readout when correctly > calibrated. With a 100 cycle bandwidth, this is somewhat > acceptable. > > ..... > > Will/can the P3/K3 combination approach the accuracy of the > above systems? > > -lu-w4lt- > > > No virus found in this outgoing message Checked by PC Tools AntiVirus (6.1.0.25 - 6.14880). http://www.pctools.com/free-antivirus/ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
