[Elecraft] More AGC

[Wayne Burdick]

Bill,

We considered adding OFF to the AGC switch rotation, but this causes one
major problem: if there are strong signals present, you can get slammed
by very loud audio during the interval (even brief) where it's set to
OFF. It's a jarring experience for those who don't have any idea that
AGC can or should ever be turned off. Therefore, we took the safer route
and made AGC OFF an "advanced "(2-button) function. Few operators use
it, so this was, we felt, a good compromise. The same applies to other
things you have to do with two buttons.

The K2 would have to be substantially larger to accomodate all the
buttons *everyone* would like to have on the front panel  ;)

73,
Wayne
N6KR


Bill Coleman wrote:
> 
> On 5/6/02 8:00, Mychael Morohovich / AA3WF at giantbug@earthlink.net
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >Simultaneously depressing PRE/ATT and AGC toggles the AGC on and off.
> 
> It really would be nice to have OFF as one of the AGC toggles (eg cycle
> through FAST/SLOW/OFF)