On 8/15/2014 7:24 AM, XE3/K5ENS via Elecraft wrote:
The ad needs to be changed to reflect this point. The P3SVGA display is NOT a copy of the P3 screen. I know the digital decoding is added. By the way has, for me using a K3 for 6 years, never worked well enough on weak signals to be beneficial.
It isn't clear whether you mean that the P3SVGA doesn't work well displaying weak signals, or that the decoding doesn't work well. First, the decoding is done by the K3, and the P3SVGA simply displays it in a more user-friendly form. Second, the SVGA displays a completely different FFT with more bins (better resolution), with the same frequency and amplitude settings of the P3. The P3SVGA can be set for a very long waterfall time, which is quite useful finding holes in contests and DX pileups. And both the P3 and P3SVGA are VERY good at finding weak signals if set for maximum averaging and fixed tune mode.
I regularly use a P3 to find action on VHF, and I've got an LOTW QSL from Iraq because the P3 found him somewhere different from where he was spotted. I work CW, SSB, JT65, FSK441, and ISCAT-B on 6M, so I set the P3 to monitor from 50.080 to 50.280. This lets me see action on CW and SSB when I'm in RX mode of one of the WSJT modes. I've picked up at least a dozen grids this season because I saw them on the P3.
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