Re: [Elecraft] AGC DSP Rain Dance

2010-02-09 Thread pd0psb
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 Totally agree! We hams should not be experimenting with our equipment, we should just buy a radio and

Re: [Elecraft] AGC DSP Rain Dance

2010-02-09 Thread Philippe Trottet
Hi Paul, Where is the Ham spirit, even if we are not able today to do our own equipment as during the past. Modern Hams became lazzy because technology give us everything on a plate without any efforts ! May be I'm jurassic but Elecraft waked up my Ham spirit after decades of using commercial

Re: [Elecraft] AGC DSP Rain Dance

2010-02-09 Thread Philippe Trottet
Hi Paul, Where is the Ham spirit, even if we are not able today to do our own equipment as during the past. Modern Hams became lazzy because technology give us everything on a plate without any efforts ! May be I'm jurassic but Elecraft waked up my Ham spirit after decades of using commercial

Re: [Elecraft] AGC DSP Rain Dance

2010-02-09 Thread Hector Padron
it is compulsory to own a k3 --- On Tue, 2/9/10, Philippe Trottet trot...@unhcr.org wrote: From: Philippe Trottet trot...@unhcr.org Subject: Re: [Elecraft] AGC DSP Rain Dance To: K6LE k...@mac.com, d...@w3fpr.com Cc: Elecraft Reflector elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 5:21 AM

Re: [Elecraft] AGC DSP Rain Dance

2010-02-09 Thread Barry N1EU
Actually, I think Paul was just joking ;-) 73 Barry N1EU Philippe Trottet wrote: Where is the Ham spirit, even if we are not able today to do our own equipment as during the past. Modern Hams became lazzy because technology give us everything on a plate without any efforts ! pd0psb

Re: [Elecraft] AGC DSP Rain Dance

2010-02-09 Thread pd0psb
You tuned in correctly :-) 73' Paul Actually, I think Paul was just joking ;-) 73 Barry N1EU -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/AGC-DSP-Rain-Dance-tp4538336p4540835.html Sent from the [K3] mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [Elecraft] AGC DSP Rain Dance

2010-02-09 Thread Bob - W0GI
I assembled my K3 less then a week ago, and I don't see where you have to dance around at all. There are certainly a lot of different settings, and I am sure I will spend quite a bit of time finding the right settings for certain conditions. But that is a good thing. Flexibility is good, and once

[Elecraft] AGC DSP Rain Dance

2010-02-08 Thread RLVZ
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

Re: [Elecraft] AGC DSP Rain Dance

2010-02-08 Thread Don Wilhelm
Richard, All controls are not for everyone. There are those who just want to operate, and the default setting should be their choice. For those who want performance enhancement, then several of us are trying to give instructions about how to effectively do that - because the K3 does provide

Re: [Elecraft] AGC DSP Rain Dance

2010-02-08 Thread K6LE
Well said! I'm just glad I bought my K3 before I got too involved in some of the discussion on here. If I hadn't I might not have done it and then I would be missing out on this wonderful radio. To paraphrase what some others have said: This one is a keeper and I am taking it with me to my

Re: [Elecraft] AGC DSP Rain Dance

2010-02-08 Thread Gary and Kathleen Pearse
I've experimented almost daily during the last two Winter seasons searching 160M CW signals and making a few contacts. Not S9+, not loud and crowded Contesting or operating EU from the East Coast of NA, but typically weak signals from the middle of KL7. I'm under the Aurora's influence in a

Re: [Elecraft] AGC DSP Rain Dance

2010-02-08 Thread Philippe Trottet
Fully agree ! Race cars need fine (and often) tuning to get their best for each races, K3's are the same. But my main main thing is to enjoy and have a lot of fun to chase the weak signal, specially in big pilups in SSB with my exotic callsign. Using for ssb FC: 0.95 and Width: 1.6k (6k, 2.8

Re: [Elecraft] AGC DSP Rain Dance

2010-02-08 Thread Guy Olinger K2AV
Hi Richard, The Dance referred to the posted conversations about AGC, not changing settings while operating the K3. The only time I monkey with DSP and the AGC is when I'm testing something out. And before all the testing the last couple of weeks, I had not changed the AGC settings in over a