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

[JIM DAVIS]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:43:04 -0600
  Grant Youngman <nq5t at tx.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
> _______________________________________________

OH CONTRE Mon'Ami!!!

With having used and loved the TT Orion until the K3 came on the scene, the AGC (when--
off) was nothing close to (ultra Fast)! I say that because when also having IT'S NB (hardware--
if. blanker on) there was much less audio-distortion layed onto the resultant audio
so as to permit us to HEAR & WORK weak signals from our particular location in Concord, Ca.
Ca. where the noise can be as high as 10db/S-9 average (especially during the dry/warm
months of the year!

Your hearing characteristics are obviously a heck of alot different than mine are!

Jim/nn6ee
S/N 2406