[Elecraft] K3 v. 4.21

[James Sarte]

Correction - on FM, I have to increase mic gain settings by 200%, not 50% as
I had written.

For example, what might sound fine using a gain setting of 5 on SSB will not
produce full modulation on FM at the same setting.  I have to turn gain up
to 15 for similar results.

I'm very curious about this now.  Can anyone test their K3 and reply?

Tnx,
James K2QI

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:13 PM, James Sarte <k2qi.nyc at gmail.com> wrote:

> I concur Roy; something has changed again in the way mic gain is handled
> with this firmware iteration.  Prior to 4.14, I had to leave mic gain set to
> 4 or 5 and bias to low.  Those settings gave me 5-7 bars ALC on normal voice
> peaks.  This is with the MH2 hand mic.  After 4.18, I noticed that I had to
> turn mic gain up to 15 in order to achieve the same results.  Now with 4.21,
> mic gain has to be reduced to 5 in order to keep the ALC happy.
>
> One thing that I'm not sure about however is the difference in setting
> required for SSB and FM.  When testing using FM, I have to increase mic gain
> by 50% to see a similar ALC readout.  I don't remember if it behaved as such
> prior to 4.14.  Can anyone pse confirm?
>
> 73 de James K2QI
>