[Elecraft] K3 Audio, SSB and CW.

[ab7r at cablespeed.com]

Fred,

The K3 has a menu option to toggle additional AF gain.  Options are LO/HI.  Based on our 
testing the HI should be more than enough audio.  I'm a bit hard of hearing as well and 
also have bad tenitis all the time thanks to jets taking off and landing right above me 
all the time while on active duty.  :)  I keep the K3 in the LO setting most of the 
time.  If I get in a situation where I need more, I just set it to HI.

There are two EQs in the MAIN menu.  One for RX and one for TX, both are 8-band EQs and 
are standard K3 features.


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73,
Greg - AB7R
Whidbey Island WA
NA-065

On Tue Sep 18 13:43 , Fred Jensen  sent:

>Don Rasmussen wrote:
>> One of the first things that will happen upon the
>> release of the K3, is someone will connect a D104 to
>> it. ;-)
>
>FWIW:  While visiting some antique stores with friends in Lincoln City 
>OR last week, I came upon a very pristine D104 for $85.  It had the 
>"grab-switch" PTT with the slider for locking.  About the only issue was 
>that the name plate on the top was a bit corroded or maybe very dirty. 
>I don't know if it was the amplified version or not.  I also don't know 
>if $85 is a good price, however it did appear that the guy seemed to 
>have a rather high opinion of the value of his other stuff.  I decided 
>not to make an offer because I couldn't figure out where I'd put it on 
>the operating desk and I use headfones and a boom mic anyway, but I was 
>tempted :-)
>
>QUESTIONS:  I'm about to order my K3, and I'm thinking of adding the 
>Heil headfones/mic to the order.  War took out most of my hearing 40 
>years ago, and I need to run the AF gain close to "afterburner roar" 
>since my hearing aids don't work under the fones. I run my TS850 at 
>about 2 o'clock [maybe 1/8 of the top, pretty much at the distortion 
>point] My K2 is a little short on RX audio and I've got a little Radio 
>Shack amp that I use to fix that.  Will the K3/Heil combination give me 
>enough RX audio?
>
>I haven't heard much chatter about the audio equalizer in the K3.  Has 
>anyone experimented with it?  Does it work for both RX and TX audio?  Is 
>it a standard feature of the base K3?
>
>73,
>
>Fred K6DGW
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