[TenTec] Jupiter vs other rigs in same price range

[Jim Brown]

On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 19:56:18 -0400, Charles Greene wrote:

>On field day 
>before last, John, K1JD brought his K2/100 and operated it on CW.  
Racked 
>up a few hundred contacts.

I did just under 1,000 Q's on mine, in about 17 hours. 

>On CW, some of us locally who have K2/100s have difficulty in seeing 
>any improvement in operation by using DSP on CW, other than the 
>improved filters.

At my home QTH, in the middle of Chicago, I have a moderately high noise 
level that the K2 Noise Blanker won't touch (the Omni V NB does). The DSP 
is a big help with that. Others on the Elecraft list have said the same thing.  I 
tend to leave the DSP noise reduction on all the time at a moderate setting. 

I think this is very much a matter of finding the right tweaks, and I think the 
Elecraft manual is weak on documenting those settings. On the other hand, 
the default settings are pretty damn good, and I've heard the same thing said 
about the DSP in the Omni.  


Jim Brown  K9YC