I would just like to see signal strength, including noise, in absolute reference levels. In particular when listening to a local while turning a beam kind of thing. Although that can be done relatively with the audio voltage level, it wouldn't allow me to tell a local that his ground wave signal has gone down 3 db and is staying there, or be able to create data for studies over time.
Since it is an SDW, such is possible. dBuv is fine. Might need linearity points as part of the package which could be calibrated with a precision attenuator. Changing the functionality of the BG or SM commands so they could provide greater resolution *would* break software, which is what I was saying. But while I can see that having software access to the dBm reading could be useful for antenna measurement purposes, given the vagaries of propagation I would have thought that a 1 S-unit resolution was perfectly adequate for normal purposes. I cannot see how it would be more useful to be told I am S6.5 rather than S6 or S7, or even S5 or S8! Whatever the reading is it is going to be different 20 seconds later anyway. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Bigger-K3-S-meter-tp1399030p1437492.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] 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
