Lateral thinking. Sounds good to me David G3UNA > > From: "Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/09/17 Wed AM 09:33:31 BST > To: "Elecraft Discussion List" <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 dbV in 2.38 > > Would it be useful to call it Vdb, i.e. a voltage measurement not > necessarily using the 1V RMS standard reference? > > 73, > Geoff > GM4ESD > > > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:40:04 -0700, Lyle Johnson wrote: > > > >>> Maybe dBv stands for dB "variable," not dB with respect to a volt. > > > >>Not with respect one volt, but voltage based, using the 20log rather > >>than the power-based 10log conversion. > > Jim K9YC wrote: > > > Hold on a minute. We cannot sit over in our little corner and pretend > > that the rest of the world does not exist. That's how we got into > > trouble with the KIO3. > > > > dBV is a voltage measure with a reference of 1V RMS. It's an > > international standard. If a K3 function does something else, it needs > > to be called something else. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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