[RTTY] New radio from Elecraft, the K3, looks REALLY good for RTTY

[Kok Chen]

On Apr 29, 2007, at 6:35 PM, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 wrote:

> I will admit that I have one of the Z90 panadapters, so as soon as I
> get the radio, I'll have a bandscope to use with it, since I'm
> addicted to the bandscope myself.

Or do as their web page says, just use a SoftRock (change the crystal  
on it) and feed it into your favorite software to display the  
waterfall or spectrum on your computer display.

Cost about $15 for the SoftRock, plus a custom crystal, plus a sound  
card and a couple of hours to build the SoftRock.

With software, you can play tricks that simple bandscopes cannot, one  
of which is applying 1-D and 2-D noise reduction tricks.  I recently  
experimented with noise reduction for waterfalls and it is quite eye  
opening [sic].

By the way, more K3 info here:

http://www.elecraft.com/K3/K3_Data%20Sheet_rev06.pdf

Trying to decide between this and the FlexRadio 5000.   As some TV  
commercial says, "nothing else even comes close."

73
Chen, W7AY