Making a great rig even better. Totally stoked to play with the radio with the new firmware.
> To my ears, this AGC change is a MAJOR improvement! It didn't > take any extensive testing to reach that conclusion. The > difference is immediately obvious. > > As mentioned previously, with low values of slope and high values > of threshold, loud signals "blank out" with the current firmware > release, so the most aggressive combinations can't be used now. > Threshold 15 and slope 0 seem to work pretty well though. I am > listening to 20 meter cw now with two K3's. Rig 1 has the new > firmware, with threshold 15 and slope 0. Rig 2 has threshold 8 > and slope 0 with the current mainstream firmware. > > Rig 1 sounds MUCH cleaner, both on the loud W1AW code practice > signal, and on the 7O6T pileup. The pileup is not too deep on > any one frequency, so it's not the ultimate test, but signals do > sound much cleaner on rig 1. > > If more aggressive values of slope and threshold can be > accommodated without the blanking effect, the improvement will be > even greater. Elecraft is definitely on the right track here. > Thanks for working on this issue! > > > Dave Hachadorian, K6LL > Yuma, Arizona > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
