If there's a high noise floor, try the following, in this order: - Turn off the preamp, and possibly even turn on the attenuator (SCAN is pretty sensitive, so it will stop on real signals above the noise floor even with the attenuator on)
- Narrow the filter bandwidth and slow down the scan rate accordingly (example: If you set WIDTH to 100 Hz, set RATE to 10 Hz rather than 50 Hz so you won't miss as many real signals) - Try backing down RF GAIN a bit - Use a lower-noise antenna 73, Wayne N6KR On May 4, 2011, at 8:36 AM, David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote: > That's great and I like the idea, but with a variable S7 to S9 noise > floor here, I find the K3 stops all the time - would you expect that > or am I doing something wrong? > 73 de M0XDF, K3 #174, P3 #108 ______________________________________________________________ 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
