Having, in waiting for my K3, read all sorts of accolades
for the NB and NR,
I feel, now that I have the radio in front of me, somewhat
deflated. The NB
is, it seems to me, no better than many others I have used
(eg TS-850) and
the NR does not seem, to me at least, to be any better
than that on the
TS-480 this K3 replaced.
Have to agree with you on that, Jim. It's definitely a
trade-off
between noise suppression and signal intelligibility. As
with many
things, it works better on CW than it does on SSB.
I think perhaps the people that are ecstatic about noise
reduction have noise that is greatly different than the type
of signal they are trying to copy. The unhappy campers are
trying remove noise that is similar in characteristics to
what they are trying to hear. If the blanker or reduction
system can't tell the noise from the signal it can't work no
matter how much time and effort is put in the design.
An RF noise nulling device would be a solution if the noise
is from a defined direction and source.
This reminds me a little of that "For Eyes" commercial.
73 Tom
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