> Jeff, not to worry. We received enough mail that it will stay on the front
> panel.
>
> keep the RF Gain control (call it what you like: "Max AGC Gain" or
> whatever
> might be more intuitively appropriate) on the front panel. I use it all
> the
> time
I never said to take it off the panel. I said to call it the *exact* same
thing it is called on the set up menu.
One of the reasons this is important is that there is really no such thing
as RF Gain any way in a DSP radio. Your DSP math allows you to manipulate
the 5 variables that you list in the set up menu under DSP AGC. The
combination of how these variables are set results in the *apparent* RF Gain
that most analog radio operators are familiar with. There is an excellent
discussion of this in the Orion users manual. It is important that new users
of DSP radios get up to speed (learn about) this topic, to help them break
away from old concepts and simplistic controls that used to get labeled RF
Gain.
Once you get the idea of how to set DSP AGC controls you can do very magic
things with weak signal DX work (for example). It is in the best interest
of the Flex user community to explain to them how to do this in detail,
*AND* to give them the necessary controls where they can readily use them
(docked onto the front GUI), so that they can extract the most possible
benefit of a real radio like the SDR !
Admittedly, to do this (adjust AGC) on my Orion, I have to press a menu key
to get to the variables I mention. But now I have a Flex and I have to mouse
the setup menu to get to them. I am just trying to get them on the front GUI
to save myself a little trouble (being naturally lazy) and to have them
called the same thing as they are on the set up menu so I don't get confused
(being naturally stupid).
-Dan
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