Fred and Bill, Thanks for your answer -- I think that is probably the issue. I totally forgot about the ref lvl setting. Of course, that delayed behavior would have still confused me a bit.
Thanks. 73, phil, K7PEH On Feb 10, 2013, at 5:54 PM, Fred Jensen <k6...@foothill.net> wrote: > I think this is normal, mine does "things like this" on all bands. I believe > it is the REF LVL resetting to where it was last time I was on the band. If > I was on 20m during the day with the REF LVL set at the baseline, and then go > back to 20m at night [when the band noise is a lot lower], I'll see the > spectrum trace and WF for a second or two, and then it goes away and the WF > is black.** Conversely, if I set the REF LVL on 80m during the day [when the > band noise is low], and then come back to 80m at night, the trace is elevated > above the baseline and the WF is fuzzy white. Just leave REF LVL up on the > screen and adjust it. > > 73, > > Fred K6DGW > - Northern California Contest Club > - CU in the 2013 Cal QSO Party 5-6 Oct 2013 > - www.cqp.org > > **I don't have any color vision, and I can't see weaker signals against the > color WF background. Alan kindly added a monochrome WF option ... apparently > for one [1] customer ... which works great. See if you can find that kind of > service anywhere else. :-) > > On 2/10/2013 1:14 PM, Phil Hystad wrote: > >> If I switch to 10-meters (and, there is activity on the band), the P3 >> shows the signals and the waterfall for about two seconds. After >> about two seconds, there is a change. The waterfall signal >> disappears and the signals almost disappear except for the stronger >> ones if any. > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
