Al,
How about sharing your settings?
-de John NI0K
Al Lorona wrote on 3/31/2020 1:47 PM:
Jack beat me to the comment I was going to make. Far be it from me to contradict a
seasoned contester like W3LPL, nor to dismiss the comments of many others, but I wonder
how many "the K3 sounds bad on SSB" comments occur because of operator error in
setting the AGC and gain controls improperly? In my experience, a number of such
declarations are due to not knowing how to set the controls to optimum. Then, at some
point, these perceptions attain legend status.
Now, if W3LPL's assertion is that the need to know *how* to set those controls
properly poses a problem for contesters, that could be a valid point. If, for
instance, the newest Flex 1,000,000 just works out of the box, with the default
settings, that may appeal to contesters and I understand that.
However, it's never bothered me that the default AGC parameters of a K3 aren't
optimum for me... that's why the controls are variable, no? I've learned to set
them to obtain incredible SSB readability. My settings aren't magical; I got
them from others and are based on my own measurements (which others have
dismissed over the years, I don't know why).
Al W6LX
With the default settings things can get quite jumbled and the audio is not
clean and crisp.
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