With my 6300 I have a "WNB" tab. I have turned it on and didn't really notice anything.

Don Stefanik

With my 6300 I have a "WNB" tab. I have turned it on and didn't really notice anything. Also when I have someone tuning up I put in then the ANF and tune the tuner upper is gone. But when some one keys up too talk the tuner up comes through.

George KF2T

WNB - wideband noise blanker. Works best on wideband, "correlated" noise. A slider controls the algorithm, which does take a short time to figure out the noise. ANF - automatic notch filter. Identifies and notches a pure note. May "hunt" in the presence of other signals (such as voice). A fixed notch may be of value then. These, and many more really cool tidbits are in the extensive documentation on Flex site. Enjoy!

George KF2T

Here: http://www.flexradio.com/support/downloads/

Mark Gottlieb

I found that the WNB works best with noise associated with power lines.  Although my "shack" is in the basement of my house, I once had noise across the entire band which made it nearly impossible to RX anything.    I enabled WNB and it was like magic all of the interference completely disappeared.  

DrTeeth

I have a similar experience to Don. As good as the SSDR noise mitigation filters may be, I get the feeling that they are too specific for a particular type of noise. Instead of wishing I had a certain type of noise, I would like to mitigate the noise I already have. 

Bill -VA3WTB

This is the problem with allowing the Flex to remain so open on receive. In software it is possible to drill down into a certain type of noise. In doing this, other noises may not be effected as well. This Is what many see happening, they have a certain type of noise that falls outside the intended target.

It would have been possible I think to make the noise mitigation blanket the whole receiver so all and any noise would be effected, but doing that would effect the receiver performance.

It seems some  people do not have wide band noise, electrical noise, power lines. For me 40 Meter band is un usable without the wide band filter.

Burch Akin

I have had horrible power line noise at my QTH and on most bands, the WNB has worked pretty good.  20 meters would have been un usable yesterday without it.  I still think the NB is better on PowerSDR but the WNB has worked very well for me with my recent power line noise. 

Walt - KZ1F

" Instead of wishing I had a certain type of noise, I would like to mitigate the noise I already have".

Isn't it funny how that works? I mean, seriously, in trying to figure out if/why it won't work on the obvious noise I do have here, I caught myself wishing I had noise it would work on. The goal is to not have any noise though. Yes, I agree it appears to be too selective on a certain noise 'signature', to the exclusion of noise others may have instead.  As we all have acknowledged, WIP. Although, while that was the case when many of us preordered the 6000 3+  years ago, do new purchasers share that sentiment.

Ned K1NJ

The PowerSDR NB perhaps still is the "gold standard".

           Ned,  K1NJ

DrTeeth

Maybe they should just reverse engineer the results of the PSDR filters. I know it will probably be difficult, but 'difficult' is what Flex does so well. Unfortunately, noise mitigation, like GUI enhancements, does not bring in the $s.

Walt - KZ1F

Your last sentence though is the real bottom line and, yes, I agree with you.

DrTeeth

Hi Walt,

In my post I said to reverse engineer 'the results'. I should have explained what I mean by that. If a PSDR filter can clean noise sample 1, then they should design a filter that does the same. Similarly with the other filters that they used for PSDR development. I cannot believe that somebody did not compare the noise mitigation of PSDR and SSDR at some point during the latter's development.

Walt - KZ1F

I sit corrected, sir! Yes, I agree with that as well.

Gerald-K5SDR

It is not possible to compare noise reduction on two radios without feeding the two radios from the same antenna through a power splitter.  Anything else is anecdotal and cannot be compared.  

There is also no such thing as a single algorithm that works on all kinds of noise.  In fact some things we think are "noise" are real signals.  If you remove the "noise" you remove the signal of interest right along with it.  I find that there is a very low understanding of noise in general.  Not much time to explain it again since I am off to the IXDC convention.

Burch Akin

I have done a test with a splitter (A/B antenna switch) with my 6500 and 5000A with the same antenna.  Before the WNB, the 5000A was much better comparing the NB between the two radios.  The WNB (with most of my local power line noise) is a huge improvement over the normal NB.  Still not as good as the 5000A, but much much better.  Without the WNB, I wouldn't have been able to work 20 or 40 meters this past weekend.

K1UO Larry

@Gerald,

  I have asked at various times before concerning how the 6K series works on electric fence pulses (real noise).  but am not getting much for definite answers.  Have you had a chance to actually test your 6000 series NB on this type of noise?

Regards,

Larry  K1UO

HCampbell WB4IVF

In my environment NB works very well in greatly reducing (although not completely eliminating), noise from my neighbor’s electric fence, which is the primary noise source here.   WNB has no apparent effect on this or most other seemingly “correlated” noise situations, but similar to others’ reports it has worked very well for me several times when wide swaths of the spectrum were temporarily obliterated by a very strong noise.   

K1UO Larry

Can you elaborate on the fence pulse noise mitigation...   Does the NB take most of the pulse out,  say, as an example, S5 spikes down to S1?  or does it do that good of a job?   Fence noise is also my primary noise source so that is why the interest in the F6K NB effectiveness.    If the neighbors horse fence was not in such a bad state of repair I would fix it myself...  but apparently they plan on just continually repairing and splicing until they are just splicing the splices.  

HCampbell WB4IVF

Larry -

NB takes out most of the pulses here.  In my case NB reduces the pulses to where they are still audible but not too annoying.  Subjectively I'd say NB is 80 - 90% effective here, depending on the antenna I'm using.

(BTW, I'm glad I successfully resisted the family pleas to get our own horse!) 

Howard