I believe there is another reason to reduce the RF gain with the AF above what it otherwise would be; and I don¹t know that it has anything to do with AGC or the evolution of detectors over time. I have been doing it for over a half century and I still do it with my KX3 on CW. In casual rag chews where the S/N ratio is robust, backing off the RF gain is another way to get rid of externally-created noise relative to audio output. It just makes for more comfortable copy. (I almost never do it with the K3, since that rig is used almost exclusively for DX and contest work, where comfort isn¹t an asset.) Maybe it¹s a purely subjective phenomenon, but it works for me.
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