[Elecraft] K1: RF gain and RIT controls

[Sandy]

Subject: [Elecraft] K1: RF gain and RIT controls


| I'm finally going to open the box I've had for 2 years and build a K1 so I'll 
| have a rig for the Australian outback next month! Before I start, a couple of 
| questions:
| 
| 1. Has anyone come up with a good RF gain control, aka AGC threshold control? 
| Please, no lectures about how the K1 doesn't need it, or how the RF 
| attenuator works great. 
| 
    I've NEVER yet had a need for an RF gain control in the hottest most crowded
contest!  I VERY rarely use the attenuator in fact.


| 2. In searching the archives, I found hundreds of posts about the RIT range. 
| Too many to sort through. Is the mod in the manual the best and simplist for 
| reducing the RIT range, or was there a definitive posting of a better one? 
| While I'm at it, is there a drop-in replacement for the RIT control that has a 
| center detent?


    PLEASE LET EVERYONE KNOW with a post if you find a pot with a center 
detent that will drop in the K1's front panel board!  I find the RIT VERY touchy
in it's present form.  I would really like to limit it to 1.5-2 khz MAX each side of center,
plus have a reliable "notch" to come back to for a center reference.  T'would be
very nice.
    Still in spite of this, best QRP rig I've ever had!

73,
Sandy W5TVW 
| Thanks!
|     -Bruce AA5B
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