[Elecraft] Recommended AGC settings for separation of signals in CW pile-ups

[Arie Kleingeld PA3A]

I also worked in the cqww, dealing with weak and strong signals.


I set my agc to agc-s with menu setting on 40.
Also on is the soft decay and I switched the agc pls to off.

This worked reasonably well. The agc is fast enouogh to recover from a 
strong station, and slow enough to hold the gain constant when a station 
is calling.
If stations call on exact the same freq (caused by riding the dx cluster 
or some software program instead of finding the stations yourself), bad 
luck. But I can manage that.

The only thing that annoyed me was that the signals within the roofing 
filter (400Hz) and outside dsp passband pumped the agc just a few times 
to many (the hardware agc so I understand).

Wouldn't it be nice if this could be switched to different settings in a 
menu or so.
Same thing for bringing the notch into the agc-loop.

73,
Arie PA3A