[Elecraft] Noisy K3 receiver

[Joe Planisky]

Wow.  Sounds like as much fun as a cell phone.   No thanks.

No DSP is ever going to match my preferences AND your preferences AND  
everyone else's preferences.  Heck, we can't even agree on what  
"proper" AGC is, so Elecraft has given us the controls to set as we  
see fit.

Different strokes for different folks.  Always has been, always will be.

73
--
Joe KB8AP

On Dec 18, 2009, at 8:43 AM, Wes Stewart wrote:

> If the receiver has a properly designed AGC system then there are  
> only two variables that are potentially the operator's  
> responsibility: 1) Preamp On/Off and 2)
> Attenuator On/Off.  With the smarts built into modern radios, why  
> can't the radio do, for example upon band switching, a little  
> routine of turning each of these on and off and measuring the  
> resulting SNR and then setting them accordingly? If an S9+50 dB  
> neighbor suddenly pops up, the DSP should know sooner than the  
> operator that the ADC is being overloaded and act accordingly.  If  
> an antenna is changed or a noise source pops up, a simple macro  
> executed by a key tap could run the routine automatically and be  
> done with it.
>