[Elecraft] K3 Need for compressor

[Lyle Johnson]

Hello Ian!

> ... Any transmitter with effective compression 
> will also benefit from a "noise gate" or some other kind of nonlinear 
> threshold, to reduce the noise background when there's no actual speech. 
> This would be something like VOX, but with a different configurable 
> threshold and hold/release dynamics.
> 
> To obtain full value from the K3's highly effective compressor, could a 
> noise gate be added to 'Lyle's List', please?

Instead of a Noise Gate with two or three variables, I've implemented an 
*experimental* Downward Expander with a single variable (threshold).  It 
certainly kills the background noise here!

We're listening...

Lyle KK7P

PS - Not sure when it'll be in the release code.  Higher priority items 
in the queue at the moment.