[Elecraft] K3: ducking this topic

[Darwin, Keith]

If I manually turn the RF gain down, then I've made it so only the loud
stations are loud to me.  Quiet stations (and the band noise) are all
but gone.  When a loud station appears, I hear them well.  When loud QRM
appears, I hear it well too which is exactly what I want to avoid.

A similar issue exits with auto bandwidth changes.  If the ducking
system narrows the bandwidth to get rid of distractions, that's fine
until QRM appears on your freq. and masks your sidetone.

Instead, I want my RF gain to be high enough so that the weak and strong
signals get some AGC action.  Then, I want the AF gain auto-reduced by
maybe 6-10 dB so that I can clearly hear my sidetone over the RX audio.
With this configuration, I should be able to hear just about anything,
weak or strong, that appears on my freq, but it won't be loud enough to
mask my sidetone.  I'm aware, yet still in control.

- Keith N1AS -
- K3 711 -


-----Original Message-----
This request is something I've never heard of and I am having a hard
time imagining an actual use for it.  If you turn the AF down (or duck
it), then they station that you still want to hear must be relatively
"loud"...or at least above the din.

So in addition to Wayne's suggestion (which I agree with and was
actually my first reaction), how about just turning down the RF gain for
that QSO to the point where the noise (almost?) is out of the picture
but the guy you want to hear, should he break you, is still audible?

de Doug KR2Q