[Elecraft] CW Filters - was Does anyone miss passband tuning, audio notch on K2?

[Martin AC6RM]

When I was invited to the shack of the great Bob Goldman, K6BD (SK,
callsign reassigned) I had to tear him away from writing javascript.  He
was in his eighties and his wife had passed a year before.  But he was
full of life.  When I finally got him in front of the rig so I could get
some mentoring, he said "make sure you get a rig you can turn the AGC OFF.
 If you can't turn the ACG off, it probably means the audio circuit isn't
worth a damn.  You'll miss sh*t in the passband if you have to mess with
an ACG; stuff you'd wished you'd gotten" (or something to that effect,
anyway).  He had a Kwd TS940S.  He had DXCC six ways from Sunday and a
list of other awards that filled the wall.

Not withstanding, IF shift in the K2 would seem to be a firmware issue,
since CAL FIL takes you there in a manual sort of way.  If you gotta have
IF shift, then scope what's happening on the comm bus during CAL FIL, then
program up a 16F84 with a couple of buttons or something.

Maybe I'm out to lunch ...

73, Martin
(k2#3021 "It's Shake'n'Bake an' Ah Healped!")

> Hello Herb ...  I guess it all depends what you are used to over the
> years. I ran wide no filter receivers for years as that was all I could
> afford in my younger days.  I am not totally happy with ANY filtering
> scheme although some do the job better than others.  The unhappiness is
> not really from the filtering point but from the audio-tonal qualities.
> I find that I use the 1.5 kc setting about 95 percent of the time ...but
> that again is from someone who really doesn't mind hearing 3 stations at
> one time on the SMK. God Bless  73  Tom  KI3R Port Vue Pa nr Pittsburgh

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