[Elecraft] K3 on-channel strong signal overload?

[Wes Stewart]

I started composing a message yesterday about this and got called away.  Paul has now sort of beaten me to it, but what I had written was:

"Seems to me that the radio ought to be smart enough to correct (at least partially) these issues.

If the preamp needs disabling and/or the attenuator needs engaging then the firmware should do it."


--- On Tue, 5/5/09, pd0psb <p.s.bijpost at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: pd0psb <p.s.bijpost at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 on-channel strong signal overload?
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 10:20 AM
> Quite a number of radios I know disable pre-amp and enable
> ATT when the AGC
> voltage reaches a certain threshold. A handy way of
> extending the range of
> total AGC with 30/40dB without having to reach for the
> knobs. Automatically
> switched by firmware to catch the first unexpected RF hits.
> 
> 73'
> Paul
> PD0PSB
> 
>