Guy- It would appear that some K-3 owners really enjoy dancing around wasting time and energy "dancing the AGC up and down" ... and forever fooling with DSP adjustments... but there are some of us who do not enjoy that at all! For me, there are MUCH better uses of time when running during a contest than fooling around dancing with the AGC & DSP settings. Further, dancing with the AGC & DSP simply isn't neccessary in a well engineered modern day radio. Therefore, "dancing with the AGC should be optional for those who enjoy doing so. 73, Richard It may be a dance, but hopefully careful intelligent musing over the matter is convincing people that they should get the ambient well down in the analog-to-digital converter (ADC) operating range. If they do, a -99 threshold is a -109 threshold, and further backing off RF gain can make it a -119 or -129 threshold as far as the ADC is concerned, and headroom is being used for what headroom should be used for.
Maybe the variable gain by band in the MP (with a menu override) was really a better strategy for a default. This same issue dogged Orion owners, and by the chatter a lot of them never understood either. REPLY: INDEED IT WAS! BUT THE FACT IS WHETHER THE VARIABLE GAIN WAS SET ON OR OFF THE MP'S AGC WAS A JOY TO USE AND LISTEN TO. 73, Guy. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
