[Elecraft] K3 AGC bad

[Charles Harpole]

My K3 is a super CW rig and a poor SSB rig..... at least to this date....
 
 
1.  AGC blasts from weak to strong sig... does not smooth out the audio enuf.
Vy short tone sigs pierce my eardrums.
No excuse for this problem.
A fix, pse???
 
2. Tighter than 2.20 and the SSB audio really degrades.
This is either a great filter system or my earlier rigs'
(Mk 5 etc.) nice 1.8 INRAD filters were not that sharp.
Below 2.00 on ssb and the voices lose too much of 
their intelligibility, sad to say, because I need
1.8, or so, to kill the guy 2 kc above.
 
3.  Many ssb sigs sound harsh and too sharp even
at 2.8, especially when 5 or more are calling at
the same time.  Adding bass with the cut knob helps some.
Using Heil ProSet Plus.
 
4.  NR at any setting degrades weaker ssb sigs beyond
usefulness.  Why is this?
 
 
 
And, the temporary info that appears BRIEFLY in the
vfo B window is too brief for me.
A fix, pse????
 
I gotta get my shack computer on line agn to get updates.  In my
appliance op uses to date, K3 is not sliced bread on ssb.
 
73Charles Harpole  HS0ZCWk4vud at hotmail.com