Re: [Elecraft] New K3 Firmware: Pileup-inspired AGC changes

2009-02-26 Thread Bill W4ZV
Jan Erik Holm wrote: Don Rasmussen wrote: Anyone care to take a guess as to how long an anomoly like this would live in any other mass produced HF transceiver? My guess - the life of the radio. Maybe the Flex guys would get to it. With Elecraft, the issue was identified on the

Re: [Elecraft] New K3 Firmware: Pileup-inspired AGC changes

2009-02-26 Thread Wes Stewart
--- On Wed, 2/25/09, Jim Brown j...@audiosystemsgroup.com wrote: Someone just posted that they had trouble in pileups during the contest last weekend, but the radio worked better when they turned on the attenuator and turned down the RF gain. DUH! I learned that in 1957 -- but

Re: [Elecraft] New K3 Firmware: Pileup-inspired AGC changes

2009-02-26 Thread Joe Subich, W4TV
Of Wes Stewart Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:32 AM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net; Jim Brown Subject: Re: [Elecraft] New K3 Firmware: Pileup-inspired AGC changes --- On Wed, 2/25/09, Jim Brown j...@audiosystemsgroup.com wrote: Someone just posted that they had trouble

Re: [Elecraft] New K3 Firmware: Pileup-inspired AGC changes

2009-02-26 Thread Dick Green WC1M
, February 26, 2009 6:32 AM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] New K3 Firmware: Pileup-inspired AGC changes Jan Erik Holm wrote: Don Rasmussen wrote: Anyone care to take a guess as to how long an anomoly like this would live in any other mass produced HF transceiver

[Elecraft] New K3 Firmware: Pileup-inspired AGC changes

2009-02-25 Thread wayne burdick
There's been a lot of discussion recently about what happens to multiple closely spaced signals with AGC turned on. We have a new field-test firmware revision available that offers a significant improvement in such situations by reducing the IMD caused by conventional AGC. If you'd like to try

Re: [Elecraft] New K3 Firmware: Pileup-inspired AGC changes

2009-02-25 Thread garyhvizdak
Wed Feb 25 13:45:20 EST 2009 wayne burdick n6kr wrote ... ... We have a new field-test firmware revision available that offers a significant improvement in such situations by reducing the IMD caused by conventional AGC. -- Wayne, I just received #2724 yesterday and am still inventorying

Re: [Elecraft] New K3 Firmware: Pileup-inspired AGC changes

2009-02-25 Thread wayne burdick
We now have plenty of volunteers to try this experimental AGC firmware. Thanks! 73, Wayne N6KR __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post:

Re: [Elecraft] New K3 Firmware: Pileup-inspired AGC changes

2009-02-25 Thread wayne burdick
To those of you who are testing this: Remember that AGC HLD only affects slow AGC (AGC-S). So, once you have a long AGC HLD time set up (0.3 to 1 sec, let's say), you can go back and forth between fast AGC (with no hold), and slow AGC (with a long hold) just by tapping the AGC switch.

[Elecraft] New K3 Firmware: Pileup-inspired AGC changes

2009-02-25 Thread Don Rasmussen
, the engineers understand the effect and offer test software for it. Kudos! [Elecraft] New K3 Firmware: Pileup-inspired AGC changes wayne burdick n6kr at elecraft.com Wed Feb 25 13:45:20 EST 2009 There's been a lot of discussion recently about what happens to multiple closely spaced signals

Re: [Elecraft] New K3 Firmware: Pileup-inspired AGC changes

2009-02-25 Thread Jim Brown
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:39:16 -0500, garyhviz...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Does this new firmware eliminate the need for really narrow roofing filters? Does it make them even more useful? Does it not have any bearing? The benefit of all of this software tweaking and the roofing filters and the

Re: [Elecraft] New K3 Firmware: Pileup-inspired AGC changes

2009-02-25 Thread Jan Erik Holm
Don Rasmussen wrote: Anyone care to take a guess as to how long an anomoly like this would live in any other mass produced HF transceiver? My guess - the life of the radio. Maybe the Flex guys would get to it. With Elecraft, the issue was identified on the weekend, and here it is