Still, the adjustment is a bit tricky. A higher threshhold also has loss of softer speech as a side effect. When room-noise and speech approach the same level the gate has a rough time, a common situation in contests/fielddays with people and fan-cooled equipment packed closely together :-)
Somehow I still feel a small modification to the open/close slopes could help the gate. A slightly less steep slope at the opening of the gate might prevent over-sensitivity to small spikes or "self"-modulation by room noise/ LF noises. A gentler slope at closing of the gate will prevent the switching effect you hear. A smooth slope (soft tail-out) would be much less noticable. As it is programmed now I can imagine people think they hear cross-over distortion, a bit similar to SSB with class C amplification. 73' Paul PD0PSB Thus, the Noise Gate is not a clipper or "waveform modifier" and introduces no crossover or other distortion when it is activated. In this case, the speech overrides the noise source during speech, and the timer silences the audio path when there is no speech. However, if the threshold is too high, then "leading edge" distortion may result. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K3-and-W2IHY-EQ-Plus-tp4452832p4462931.html Sent from the [K3] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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
