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[Bill W5WVO]

I think what Lee meant to say in his item 5 was "ALC" (a transmit feature), 
not "AGC" (a receive feature).

Bill W5WVO


Barry N1EU wrote:
> Lee Buller wrote:
>>
>> 5.  AGC issues. Heck, I have not used AGC in years.  I thought it was
>> worthless years ago, so I've never used it with an amp.  If you have
>> a good signal going into the amp, then you don't need the AGC stuff.
>> Dumb. Garbage in ... garbage out.  Clean in....Clean out.  AGC...come
>> on...SHeeesh!
>>
>
> Actually, K3's AGC is quite good.  The reviewer had commented: "The
> receiver AGC is not enough to handle strong signals over 30dB over S9
> making them sound distorded,of course turning back the RF gain fixed
> the problem but that never happens in the Pro3 even with signals up
> to 50 dB from local hams and the received audio is always clear."
>
> If the review had RTFM (read the fine manual), perhaps he would have
> figured out to increase the AGC slope value (to 15) in the menu and
> backed off on his AF gain.  This would have fixed his problem.
>
> Perhaps the K3 would benefit by having the AGC Slope value default to
> 15 instead of 10.
>
> 73,
> Barry N1EU