While an internal blanker would be consistant with the design goals of the K2, an external blanker would also be acceptable. Most severe noise problems are at a home QTH, and not at locations where portable operations are conducted. Less noise at the campsite than at home.
A fully assembled internal SMD noise blanker module is still preferable to not being able to fully use the K2. Even if we couldn't assemble it, at least we could still plug it in to the headers. :-) Darrell VA7TO On July 18, 2005 09:47 am, wayne burdick wrote: > Thanks, everyone, for all the input on noise blankers. > > A more sophisticated noise blanker is certainly possible. It would need > about twice as many parts, and to fit in the available space would > require nearly all SMDs, including 0603 size passives and TSSOP ICs. > This implies a completely pre-assembled module, which is one of the > things we tried to avoid in the K2 :) > > Still, this is definitely on the wish-list. When we do get to it, we'll > be looking for testers who have all sorts of horrible noise to throw at > it. > > 73, > Wayne > N6KR -- Darrell Bellerive Amateur Radio Stations VA7TO and VE7CLA Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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
