[Elecraft] K3 AGC dead spot

[Mike]

Thanks, Vic.

Per Dale's suggestion I did a calibration using factory defaults, and the dead spot 
is gone, and the S-meter is back to rising with a decrease of RF gain. Dagnab it.....

73, Mike NF4L

On 10/20/2010 11:50 PM, Vic K2VCO wrote:
> My guess is that you need to do the RF Gain Calibration procedure with the K3 utility. If
> you have an XG1 or XG2 you can use it as a calibrated source, or if not you can tell the
> utility to use the factory default settings.
>
> On 10/20/2010 8:13 PM, Mike wrote:
>> Tonight I noticed that from about 2:00 to 2:30 on the RF gain encoder, the receiver
>> goes dead. It's not dependent on the THR or SLP settings which I adjusted to match
>> some advice given here short time past.
>>
>> I also realized my S-meter doesn't rise as the RF gain is reduced. I like that, but I
>> don't know how it got that way. :-P
>>
>> I have the latest firmware.
>>
>> It's not really a big deal, but is is puzzling.
>>
>> 73, Mike NF4L