After this weekend's hamfest I was reading my new ARRL 2007 handbook to see what might be NEW in ARRL testing of receivers, I came across this sentence that I thought pretty well summed up my experience with my K2 receiver.
On page 10.7 3rd column "When using a good receiver with a linear front end and a clean LO, amateurs accustomed to receivers with poor phase-noise performance report the impression of a seemingly emptier band with gaps between signals -- and then they begin to find readable signals in some of the gaps. This whole section in the handbook reveals the "science" behind the efforts engineers put into receiver design and why phase noise is so important for both the receive and transmit performance. Dick WB7OND "hanging around for shipment 2" _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
