[Elecraft] Suggested AGC settings for Beta 3.03

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Hi Wayne and all,
Just before our MARS net tonight I installed Beta 3.03.
When the net started I had a lot of distortion on all the signals regardless
of signal strength.  It sounded like the static went up as stations spoke.
I did not know what was changed so I reloaded FW 2.78 complete (during the
net!).  I then got back the good signal quality I was used to.  I then
copied down the agc settings which I believe are stock.

I then reloaded beta 3.03 (during the net!),  The distortion was back.  All
the AGC settings were the same except for the new AGC variable "AGC DCY" was
set to "nor".  I changed this to "soft" and got most of the nice voice
quality back (not all - still some distortion).  I then changed AGC HLD to
.03 like you suggest.  I wll keep these settings for now.

73,
Steve Pituch, W2MY, AAR6CX

-----Original Message-----
From: wayne burdick

Hi Jack,

I'm presently using all the defaults, plus AGC HLD = 0.3 (slow AGC hold
time in seconds) and AGC DCY = Soft (soft-decay characteristic for both
fast and slow AGC). The AGC HLD and AGC DCY settings should prove very
useful during pileups, although some ops may prefer to leave them off.
As you suggested, experimentation is in order.

73,
Wayne
N6KR