All noise blankers cause some distortion -- it's a matter of degree. NARrow blanking pulses and lower DSP blanker settings will cause less.
I'm surprised the AGC changes are having this much of a benefit, but I'm not going to complain. Wayne On May 6, 2012, at 6:40 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote: > Loaded the new SW and I miss having NR. I have been tuning around in > the 7O piles and it is hard for me to compare as I never really > experienced what others have. I need to split the antenna and share > with two K3's and see if I can hear a difference. > > Glad to hear the NB is working better. The distortion to some signals > with it on was really bad. > > Mike W0MU > > W0MU-1 CC Cluster w0mu.net > > > On 5/6/2012 7:31 PM, Jim Sheldon wrote: >> Don, Gary and the group, >> >> Wayne's earlier comments about the noise blanker working better >> turns out to be an understatement to say the least. Not only has >> the clarity of signals improved by being able to tailor the onset >> of the SW AGC to start at a higher level and clean up many of the >> artifacts that created problems before, but it also allows the IF >> noise blanker as well as the DSP noise blanker to work more like >> most people's concept of what a noise blanker should be able to do >> and now does it with FAR less distortion to the desired signals. >> This includes using heavy blanking with strong signals close in. >> >> I've now been able to eliminate some stubborn power line >> interference that has been plaguing me for a couple of weeks and >> due to recent tornado damage a few miles South of me, the power >> company has not had time to find and cure it yet. They've been >> busy replacing the temporary lines& poles they used to get >> everyone back on line as quickly as they could after the storm. >> >> Now that they are on the right track, I'll bet there will be quite >> a few more improvements to come. >> >> Jim - W0EB >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
