[Elecraft] K3: Make Monitor level track AF level?

[Randy Farmer]

>It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to listen to the tone while 
>adjusting. There's 2 problems with this method. If I want to change 
>sidetone level while in QSO, I miss words the other station is 
>sending or have to pause my sending while adjusting the level. Why 
>must that tone be present? ... If I wanted to hear the tone, I could 
>just press the "Pitch" button!

Or the "Spot" button. I thought that's what it's there for. I quite 
agree. The pitch adjustment on the K3 has seemed weird to me from day 
one. Why not just be able to adjust the Pitch in receive mode and 
hear the received audio tone change in real time? I certainly don't 
understand why it's necessary to mute the receive audio while the 
pitch is being adjusted. I definitely don't know what's going on 
under the software hood when the pitch is adjusted, but it seems to 
me it can't be all that much different from what happens when you 
just turn the Shift knob on the front panel. I expected to hear that 
effect the first time I played with the pitch, but that wasn't what 
happened. It sent me to the manual to see if I had screwed up the 
configuration somehow.

And as long as we're asking for changes, why not make the CW and Data 
mode monitor levels independent? I sure don't need to listen to 
transmitted PSK tones like I do CW sidetone.

>Having the sidetone track with the AF gain is nice as long as it's 
>also independently adjustable but for some reason there are some ops 
>who are strongly opposed to this....Something to do with riding the 
>AF gain for weak signals etc....

How about a configuration item such as MonTk = ON or MonTk = OFF?

>Anyway. I would just like to be able to disable the tone when 
>adjusting the level.

Me, too.

73...
Randy, W8FN