Short version: put a way to reset to default AGC in the K3 itself. Do this ASAP.
Long version: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Wayne Burdick <[email protected]> wrote: > If you feel that the noise level of your K3's receiver is excessive, > please try the following: ....snip.... > 3. Use the factory defaults for AGC. These were carefully chosen to > adjust gain in the presence of significant band noise. ....snip.... While the advice is official, there is not much point in posting "set to factory defaults" unless you include what those numbers are in your text. Otherwise the reader has to do the research (Google, site search, thumb manual looking for numbers...) to determine what the factory defaults are. Digging around on the web site, etc, will defeat a lot of readers. Not because your site is trashy (it's not), or the manual is bad (it's not), or K3 users are stupid (they're not), but because in human evolution web-searching was never the reason why one did or didn't live long enough to pass on one's genes to one's children. That and such things as RTFM were not Darwinian criteria. More than that... Human behavior studies in information assimilation on all kinds of us regular folks show over and over that on average humans don't do well at drilling down in information, become quickly bored, tired, irritated, frustrated, confused just to name a few. And while they may doggedly stay with such tasks to keep a job to feed and house the family, teeth-grinding information drilling to find the default numbers does not cut it in our pastime activities. Moreover, even relating to work, studies with competent well-thought-of clerical personnel showed that errors, misreads, no-finds, and nasty remarks increased dramatically with the number of steps to fetch, or with any uncertainty as to the source, appearance or presentation of the needed information. Given the amount of attention, confusion and complaints related to noise and AGC, wouldn't it make sense to identify your default CONFIG:AGCxxx setting numbers with a "dEF" to the left of the number when VFO A rolls over it, so that when the folks from Mount Aptos say to use the default AGC, that can be easily set and/or confirmed and/or returned to without needing to dig up the numbers somewhere? 73, Guy. ______________________________________________________________ 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
