[Elecraft] Re: K3 AGC Adjustment Parameters

[Julian G4ILO]

It looks to me as if something like a "system restore" function would
be handy, so you could set things back to the last state you had if
you decide you have completely messed things up by tweaking.

The other suggestion I was going to make was that couldn't some of the
more esoteric settings be adjustable only via a software application
writing to memory registers, to avoid adding extra menu options?

I agree with Wayne's initial decision. When I read the first posts
making a big deal of this my thoughts were that some people just can't
stop finding things to complain about. Perhaps those folks do have a
real need for this, but what it shows is that the K3 is going to be
used by an extremely wide range of operators, and what meets the
demands of some may frighten off others who find too many baffling
menu options.
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On 10/12/07, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 <faunt at panix.com> wrote:
> Can the values of all these parameters be uploaded and downloaded from
> the control port?  If so, someone (I wish I could) needs to write a
> program to do those functions and display them all with the
> differences from defaults marked.
>
> 73, doug
>
>    Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:48:36 -0700
>    From: Vic K2VCO <vic at rakefet.com>
>
>    There are literally hundreds of parameters in a radio like the K3 that
>    could be made adjustable. Some of them are extremely useful because they
>    allow you to customize the rig for your personal preferences (like the
>    AGC slope) and others because they are related to integration with other
>    station equipment or your environment (like the high and low gain
>    settings for the mic and speaker/phones amplifiers).
>
>    If everything that could be adjustable was, you'd have a huge menu,
>    people would find it confusing and hard to use, and they would set
>    things wrong and forget what they changed and how to reset it. It would
>    not be a better radio, it would be a worse radio. One of the decisions
>    out of the thousands that Wayne had to make was to choose a reasonable
>    set of configurable parameters. Everybody might not agree with the set
>    that he chose, but then everybody isn't happy with the size of the K3,
>    or the available options, etc.
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