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

[Fred Jensen]

Simon (HB9DRV) wrote:

> Original Message ----- From: "Don Wilhelm" <w3fpr at embarqmail.com>
> 
>> ...other transceivers may allow AGC off, but those I have encountered 
>> recently, except for the K2 and K3, do not.
> 
> TS-480SAT, no real change in audio level when AGC is off.

Maybe AGC just isn't working on the 480?  Just kidding :-)  The motto of 
California State Polytechnic University ["Cal Poly"], my beloved alma 
mater is, "Learn by Doing."  It was never painful.  I could do the motto 
in Latin for you except the T-shirt that has the school seal on it is in 
the laundry, and I'm not digging into that smelly place until I really 
have to.

In the "olden days," one copied CW with the AF gain all the way up and 
the RF gain for appropriate volume.  Had to do with the fixed BFO level 
in receivers.  I don't do that any more, AGC nowadays is sooo good.

Still trying to find the best AGC slope in my K3.  I like stronger 
signals to sound louder, but not a whole lot, the dynamic range for my 
ears is nowhere near what I was born with.

73,

Fred K6DGW
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