Rob and I are in agreement on the AGC thing. I believe Wayne has said much the same.
When high-end receivers had two pentode -r-f stages driving a pentagrid mixer and barn door selectivity, it made sense to reduce the r-f gain. IMHO, riding the r-f gain control (really i-f gain in the K3) in a properly designed receiver should be totally unnecessary. If it necessary, then the "properly-designed" nomenclature doesn't apply, except in the rarest of circumstances. Furthermore, unless you've done the r-f gain calibration in your K3, reducing the r-f (i-f) gain with AGC on might severely degrade the SNR. Fire at will. Wes N7WS --- On Wed, 2/3/10, Bill W4ZV <[email protected]> wrote: FYI here's a note I got from Rob Sherwood NC0B regarding his experience with the K3 in the CQ 160 last weekend. I did post a comment on how the K3 performed. Using 40 ohm per channel stereo headphones, I was not bothered by any audio distortion issues. I ran the AGC the whole time, and noted no problems. I am not into the RF gain back and the audio up method. I have the AGC setting on SOFT, an option that came out last summer I believe. ______________________________________________________________ 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
