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

[David Gilbert]

Ideally, AGC settings could be accomplished by user-defined macros so 
that a single keystroke (either from the logging program or from 
something like AutoHotKey) could be used to select between full sets of 
AGC characteristics on the fly depending upon the situation at hand.  I 
understand Elecraft's reluctance to expose the DSP code to carelessly 
created commands, but I'd vote to make an exception for AGC.  Possibly 
some kind of protection scheme could be incorporated to limit the range 
of input values.

73,
Dave   AB7E



On 12/5/2010 8:32 AM, Arie Kleingeld PA3A wrote:
> 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
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