Mike, It might be the default AGC settings that you are struggling with. If your K3 sounds "noisy" between stations, or between pauses in the other station's transmissions, then I suggest that the AGC Threshold and Slope settings may not be right for your situation.
Please review the "Noisy K3" article on my website for additional information and a guide to choosing your own AGC menu settings. 73, Don W3FPR On 4/10/2011 9:00 PM, Mike Rodgers wrote: > I've got a 3month old k3. I was impressed with how full bodied or maybe even > hi fidelity some of the audio sounded but I eventually grew tired of how the > background band noise sounded in my rural QTH. The best I can describe is it > had a high edge to it. I eventually went to a vacant frequency and adjusted > the equalizer to get the noise to sound more natural to "my" liking. That was > fine but the signal audio was now kind of plain or dull or monotone, no more > full rich sound. > I've since discovered that narrowing the bandwidth to 2.4 removes a lot of > noise so I'm currently trying that and have changed the equalizer to a more > neutral setting. I think I'm liking that better. > I like to use width and shift. I like to know where their at but I know a lot > of > Operators prefer hi/lo cut on ssb. I'll soon try that as well and hopefully > find > That full audio with non irritating noise. > > 73 > Mike R > > Sent from my spy ring > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
