[Elecraft] Beware! (Learn by doing?) :-)))

[Grant Youngman]

>
> You live a sheltered life!  The "TenTec Orion" allowed the user to  
> shutoff the AGC @ will
> and the resulting big difference in audio was NOT THERE! At best  
> maybe a s-unit or so
> but nothing approaching what I had described earlier. But it was a  
> great learning
> experience (sort of like "first-marriages"!!!  :-)))


I don't know how the K3 does it, but you cannot turn off AGC in the  
Orion.  In the Orion, AGC off simply means AGC very very fast.

Tune in a nice loud station with AGC on the R-390, and then flip it  
off.  Best if you you are listening through headphones through a good  
amplifier with LOTS of headroom ;)   After doing that, you won't be  
able to tell if you have AGC on or off, or if the receiver is on or  
off, although it will give you a good excuse to give out a "didn't  
hear you" to  those verbal honey-do's from the spouse :-)

Grant/NQ5T