[Elecraft] OT: Orion AGC OFF (was "learn by doing")

[Bill W4ZV]

DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL wrote:
> 
> Someone (I really am not going to search through to see "who") said
> that when the Orion AGC was in the "off"position, that it kept the
> same "volume" or something like that.
> 
> This struck a chord with me...I thought that I remembered that AGC
> "OFF" in the Orion was not really AGC off.  Sure enough!  See these
> two posts from 2004 (one by K3 owner and enthusiast, contester
> extraordinaire, and Novice DXCC #1 owner [I think], W4ZV).
> 
> http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/TenTec/2004-02/msg00166.html
> 
> http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/TenTec/2004-02/msg00169.html
> 
> When the AGC is really off, be prepared for high output audio blasts
> (except maybe with the new Elecraft limit function).
> 

Correct on all counts.  Orion's AGC is never truly Off.  Although the K3 has
very similar hardware architecture to Orion, Lyle is doing something very
different in his DSP code.  I've asked him several times exactly how he
achieves "Off" but he never responds, so I take it there must be something
proprietary about it.  I like the K3 implementation of AGC much better than
Orion.  I was always twiddling my Orion's AGC but just find I just set the
K3 and never need to twiddle it (not **once** in 1651 QSOs on 160 this
weekend with signals varying from S9+40 to noise floor).

You're correct about the Novice DXCC also.  For a trip down memory lane,
there are a bunch of neat Novice stories on www.novice.bappy.com.  Here's
mine:

http://www.novice.bappy.com/about_21.html

73,  Bill 

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