Thanks, Ken, for an interesting application of the P3. Congratulations on the new lower noise environment - a VERY good thing!
I also just today used the P3 for an antenna analysis application and saved lots of time. Just put up a Clifton Labs active whip as a second RX antenna, and was installing feedline common mode chokes on it. With the P3 it was VERY fast and easy to see the effects of choke placement and grounding schemes over large segments of several bands. The K3 S meter has nowhere near enough resolution for this. Normally I would have used the voltage measurement capability built into the K3. As you know, it is quite accurate, but requires lots of button pushing and even then only measures at one frequency - net result is a very time-consuming measurement task. The P3 was way slick for this. I then used the P3 to compare the whip vs. my K9AY RX antenna. Again, the P3 was drastically superior. I could see at a glance the relative background noise levels, signal sensitivity and S/N ratio. Sure glad I got the P3! 73 Craig AC0DS ______________________________________________________________ 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
