I believe there's more than one correct answer. In earlier times, the
"Collins Standard" was 6 dB/S-unit and 50 uv = S9. My 75S3 came in at
53 uv for S9, and pretty much held to the 6 dB/S-unit below that. Not
so much above S9
With my service monitor feeding my K3, it is exactly 50 uv = S9 because
I set it for that. It's a little hard to tell on the bar graph S-meter,
but it seems to be about 5 dB/S-unit below S9. It also seems to be
about 5 dB/S-unit above S9 [i.e. quite linear, in the logarithmic sense
:-)].
I've often wondered why S-meters go above S9 which should be about the
strongest signal you ever receive and thus would be full scale.
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2016
- www.cqp.org
On 11/16/2015 10:09 PM, Vic Rosenthal wrote:
I believe 5 dB is the correct number. But Lyle's suggestion to use
the dBV function is a good one.
Vic 4X6GP/K2VCO
On 17 Nov 2015, at 1:04 AM, char...@k5ua.com wrote:
We are also going to assume that the K3 S-meter is 6 dB per S-unit
all the way from S5 to S9+40dB.
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