[Elecraft] New K3 Firmware: Pileup-inspired AGC changes

Jan Erik Holm sm2ekm at telia.com
Thu Feb 26 02:31:12 EST 2009


Don Rasmussen wrote:
> Anyone care to take a guess as to how long an anomoly like this would live in any other mass produced HF transceiver?
> 
> My guess - the life of the radio.
> 
> Maybe the Flex guys would get to it. 
> 
> With Elecraft, the issue was identified on the weekend, and here it is Wednesday of the same week, the engineers understand the effect and offer test software for it. 
> 
> Kudos!
> 
Indeed! Just one example. As I understand this problem the Yaesu
FT-1000MP suffers from the same (lets call it) AGC IMD. On the
MP I have noticed it myself and others too but it is not widely
written about.
Very glad to see that it possibly can be fixed on the K3.


73 Jim SM2EKM



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