[Elecraft] AGC & DSP Rain Dance

[RLVZ at aol.com]

Guy-
 
It would appear that some K-3 owners really enjoy dancing around  wasting 
time and energy "dancing the AGC up and down" ... and forever fooling  with 
DSP adjustments... but there are some of us who do not enjoy that at  all!  
For me,  there are MUCH better uses of time when running  during a contest 
than fooling around dancing with the AGC & DSP  settings.  Further, dancing 
with the AGC & DSP simply isn't  neccessary in a well engineered modern day 
radio.  Therefore,  "dancing with the AGC should be optional for those who 
enjoy doing so.
 
73,
Richard
 
 
It may be a dance, but hopefully careful intelligent musing over the matter 
 is convincing people that they should get the ambient well down in the  
analog-to-digital converter (ADC) operating range. If they do, a -99 threshold 
 is a -109 threshold, and further backing off RF gain can make it a -119 or 
-129  threshold as far as the ADC is concerned, and headroom is being used 
for what  headroom should be used for.

Maybe the variable gain by band in the MP  (with a menu override) was 
really a better strategy for a default. This same  issue dogged Orion
owners, and by the chatter a lot of them never understood  either.   REPLY: 
INDEED IT WAS! BUT THE FACT IS WHETHER THE VARIABLE  GAIN WAS SET ON OR OFF 
THE MP'S AGC WAS A JOY TO USE AND LISTEN TO.
 
73, Guy.