I became concerned that my KX3 was misbehaving when I saw some fairly horrible signals in the waterfall, for example, the CW transmission below.
Horrible isn't it!
I noticed similar nastiness for SSB transmissions too. Then, by a stroke of luck I retuned gqrx's demodulator away from the signal and much to my surprise, the nastiness went away.
I then resorted to using a gnuradio-companion flowgraph instead and the KX3's transmissions looked clean
I'm not sure what is going on in gqrx that such a quirk can exist and I haven't had a look at the code yet. I wonder if there might be a recursive filter operating on the same data that is being used in the waterfall and PSD plot, or similar.
Update 1
I've added another screenshot below. When this was taken, I'd been scrolling the modem back and forth across the CW signal. This time I used a modem with a wider bandwidth.
Update 2:
It seems to be related to the squelch somehow. In the following screenshot, I alternated the squelch between fully open (previous setting) and fully closed. The spurii seemed to go away when the squelch was closed.
Update 3:
Turning AGC off gets rid of it.
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