[Elecraft] K3: AGC misbehaving

John A. McCabe johnamccabe at verizon.net
Sat Jan 10 19:50:03 EST 2009


You may want to try setting AGC PLS=OFF. I notice the same thing when 
this setting is on. With this setting on, It appears to me that the AGC 
pulse rejection will cause the AGC to react too quickly on some CW 
elements .

73,

John, KD8K


Ralph Parker wrote:
> While listening casually to the NA contest today, I noticed that the AGC
> was behaving thusly:
>
> In CW mode, the ACG is set to 'SLOW' (I prefer it that way). Firmware 2.72.
> When receiving a relatively strong signal, the AGC seemed to be in 'FAST'
> mode for the first 1-2 seconds, then in 'SLOW' mode for the rest of the
> transmission. This would repeat for every received transmission.
> I was not transmitting at any time.
> Am I overlooking an AGC CONFIG setting?
>
> VE7XF
>
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