Gary VE1RGB is traveling and asked that I forward to the list his note that was accidentally sent only to me. He describes a table lookup rather than the noise temp calc in my note. Maybe there are still more ideas?
73, Mike ab3ap On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Gary Bartlett <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, Mike: > > As a field tester for the P3, I pestered Elecraft about this very thing > and I was told that it had made the list of enhancements to do to the P3 at > some point. I use wire antennas matched by the K3 and verticals which are > externally tuned and two different listening antennas, and the noise levels > of those antennas show great variance at any given point in time. As a > mostly S&P CW contester, I am continually changing antenna selections and > that means that I have my fingers on the REF LVL controls constantly. I > was not the only field tester who wanted something a little more > sophisticated w.r.t. the way REF LVL works. > > My idea was that REF LVL would have memories, so to speak, that would > recall its setting for each combinations of ANT 1/ANT 2 and RX ANT > selections, Tuner ON/BYPASS settings by band (maybe some other control > settings too) such that once set up at the start of a contest, I would not > need to touch REF LVL again except to make minor adjustments in response to > changes in local noise level and daily propagation changes during a > contest. It is something of a nuisance as currently configured, and I > don't see this as laziness on my part :) > > Alan N1AL can probably tell us where that sits on the priority list. > > 73, > Gary VE1RGB P3 #007 > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
