There is a warning about that sort of thing in the manual on page 20 - Section on Line Out.
The audio increases substantially when you turn the AGC off, and you are likely to drive the transformers into high distortion levels. This was discussed at length early in the life of the K3 - see the archives for more information. 73, Don W3FPR On 7/10/2011 12:16 PM, wa9fvp wrote: > Withe the AGC off, if the line level is above a setting of 10, the signal, > if you will, falls apart. > > I did a test where I tuned to WWV at 10MHz with the AGC off. I must have > increased the setting at one time to 20. The default is 10. The line out > falls > apart when the setting is 11 or higher. I now have it at 5. > > > > ----- > Jack WA9FVP > Willco Electronics > ______________________________________________________________ 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
