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

[Don Wilhelm]

  Arie,

If the ADC is overloaded, the digital output will be garbage, and there 
will be nothing to resemble any form of a signal out of the receiver.  
In a contest like CQWW where there are lots of extremely strong signals, 
you would work fewer stations if the ADC were allowed to overload.  Lots 
of lost points while waiting for the digital bits to settle down and 
recover.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 12/5/2010 12:00 PM, Arie Kleingeld PA3A wrote:
> I agree with you Don.
>
> But how much chaos would it be? I hove no idea.
>
> There are a lot of things that we can set by menu in the K3. 
> Absolutely wonderful how we can manipulate threshold, slope, pulse, 
> decay, releasetime and holdtime. Would it be wrong te try out a menu 
> selectable threshold for the hardware agc?
> Just wondering how this would work out in a CQWW.
>