Bill, I suggest you use your TS-480 rather than the K3 if that's what works for you. Personally, mine has been gathering dust since I got my K3.
73 de John, 9H5G > On Jul 4, 2014, at 3:36 PM, "Joe Subich, W4TV" <li...@subich.com> wrote: > > > > The sad part is that My cheap little Kenwood TS480 does a much better > > job of cleaning up this noise. > > You are trolling for complaints on the Elecraft noise reduction - not > looking for a "solution". The Elecraft noise reduction is designed for > "smooth" noise - not impulse noise which is a noise blanker function. > > A smooth noise reduction system (LMS) operates by forming bandpass > filters around what it determines to be "signal" components and passing > just the "signal". You will have better results with lightning by > working with the noise blanker - probably on a "long" setting - as > it is designed to work with fast rise time signals. > > 73, > > ... Joe, W4TV > > >> On 2014-07-04 9:17 AM, Bill W2BLC wrote: >> It is lightning season and I have been floundering around the menus on >> the K3's DSP NR system. I have found no setting that really do much of >> clean-up on lightning static. I also have tried using the ATT and RF >> Gain settings also. >> >> The sad part is that My cheap little Kenwood TS480 does a much better >> job of cleaning up this noise. >> >> Of course, lightning static is very random and difficult to reduce. My >> use of HF is 40 and 75, so directional antennas are not an option - as >> some suggested. >> >> Please do not answer with direct emails - the group needs to share in >> this knowledge. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Bill W2BLC K-Line >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> Message delivered to li...@subich.com >> > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to kk4...@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
