Welcome to the K3 on CW! Yes, it is that quiet!! Try a KX3 it is even quieter!!!
This radio opened a new world for me on CW a few years ago. Even though you don't have the CW filter, you can still utilize the filters you have, and DSP filtering to narrow your bandwidth down to 50 Hz. Your K3 is an amazing rig. Keith K9GL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2016 11:33 AM Subject: [Elecraft] K3: very quiet on CW I have not used my K3 for CW, so I have no experience with it. So, a couple of days ago I decided to give it a try, after all - winter is coming. When I switched to CW mode - things got deathly quiet. Quiet as in all the background noise vanished - along with most of the signals. I could see them unchanged on the P3 - but, had to turn up the audio gain to hear them. With the audio gain up, I could hear everything that my other rigs were hearing - except no background noise. Compared to my past experience - this is not normal. I am using a K3 set up for SSB and only having the 2.7. 2.1, and 6 kc filters. Some ACG changes have been made to afford improved arm chair copy on 75 and 40 meters. My question: Have I been missing out on using the quietest CW rig ever made or is there something wrong with my receiver? It just seems too quiet. 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:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
