While I've never met a Noise Reduction implementation that I've liked on SSB, I'll confess to not had broad exposure to a lot of different ones.
However, I'll join you in your finding on the Noise Blankers. I've only found the trade-off between Noise Blanking and distortion introduced to be occasionally satisfactory and then typically only at low level settings. One sign of hope is that the hardware blanker is on a separate plug-in board, though I don't recall every having seen any mention of design changes to that. As well, I find the Notch Filters less than satisfactory. The Manual Notch is not sharp.the bottom is flat and wide. The Auto-Notch often imparts Barrel-like acoustics which I find annoying. An email query about possible improvements to the Noise Blankers and Notch Filters sent to a member of the design team received no reply. In a rig designed to set the bar when it comes to 'the numbers,' it's a shame that the performance of these basic features of Noise Blanking and Notch Filtering is lacking. Is there yet hope? 73, Dick - KA5KKT ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Am I the only one who find it difficult to use the Noise Blanker and Noise Reduction controls on the K3? Maybe it can't be improved but it sure doesn't work as well as the Ft5000. In my noisy location it sure would be nice if these two features on the K3 could be improved. 73, W0SZ ______________________________________________________________ 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
