Don: I tend to use Slow a lot too, but fast flutter and fast QSB as described by Ted are not handled well with Slow and sort of fall through the cracks between my Slow setting and my Fast setting. I could turn AGC off and deal with it manually, but then I place my ears at risk, even though I have AF LIMIT set to clip at 17. I try to run as little AF gain as possible to save my ear sensitivity. I always worry when AGC is off.
It just would be nice to be able to just punch the AGC button and select one more preset set up for something between the parameters set in S and F to deal with conditions on, say, 15 and 10 with polar flutter or on a groundwave signal from a station in my own section that I need for a multiplier. One more preset would be helpful in the heat of battle. I know I could go into the menu and adjust it, but then I would have to go into the menus and put the settings back when Im done. And at the 23rd hour of a 24 hour BIC session, this tasks my feeble brain just a bit. Of course, it is entirely possible to build a macro to do the same thing. I have not had time to explore this and, save for a firmware update that adds the third preset, it may be the logical way to fix this issue. But it would have been indeed nice to have the third preset from the git go that, as a contester, I could certainly use. Just sayin'! Lu-W4LT ======================= Message: 22 Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:26:55 -0500 From: Don Wilhelm <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 suggestion...another To: Ted Bryant <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Ted. I suggest you "stick with the contesters" who almost universally use AGC S with the K3. The AGC characteristics for the K3 are more adjustable than for most transceivers (see the K3 menu), and those menu parameters become more important than the AGC attack and decay times. 73, Don W3FPR ______________________________________________________________ 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
