[Elecraft] AGC Problem

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

Just to note firmly that this is not a problem with the K3.  Radio
firmware cannot be expected to provide workarounds for any and all
programming mistakes in third party software.

I have noted over the years that some firms, usually small software
suppliers, can be very stubborn in not dealing with issues, for any
number of reasons, varying all the way from just plain meanness to
declining health to family situations, and sometimes will spend great
energy in refusing to do anything about problems having to do with
another company that has become a peeve with them, for whatever
reason.  Since there are NO standards for programming of this sort it
will remain a jungle, and very much subject to personalities.

We have to make sure that we do not misplace the source of the
trouble, and dump our complaints on the innocent party just because
they may be more available or visible.

HRD has a problem on this one.  It will not do to say that K3 should
be "immune".  The conversation should move to HRD's venue.

I for one do NOT want to see peripheral software bugs being worked
around in K3 firmware.  Uses up space in firmware, run time,
programmer time that I would rather see spent on things that MUST be
done in K3 firmware, if at all.  Wayne is a finite resource.  Spend it
very well.

73, Guy.

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Dick Lindzen <rlindzen at mit.edu> wrote:
> I've been having the same problem since getting the P3 and I also use
> HRD.  I'll try LP-Bridge, but there really ought to be a better solution.
>
> 73, Dick WO1I
>
> At 07:38 AM 6/19/2011, Stephen Prior wrote:
>>Since I stopped using HRD and turned Mac only, I have never once had the AGC
>>turning off problem repeat itself (I am using a P3 too).
>>
>>Therefore I am 100% sure that it is (what others have called 'aggressive')
>>polling from HRD.
>>
>>It might be worth installing LP Bridge, because even though you may have no
>>need to share a serial connection, it features buffering of the HRD data.
>>That way you could keep using HRD.
>>
>>73 Stephen G4SJP
>>
>>
>>On 19 June 2011 09:48, Jens Petersen <ov1a at c.dk> wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 13:38:08 -0500, you wrote:
>> >
>> > >Going back through some notes here seems to indicate that once
>> > >I downed HRD while meeting the one and only SSB group I enjoy cured
>> > >the problem. Why it is so sensitive to only the AGC on/off I have not
>> > >a clue. But I had it no more after that.
>> >
>> > I have had this problem since I got my P3.
>> >
>> > I'm mostly running RTTY and other digimodes and in contests it happens
>> > 1 or 2 times per hour, mostly while in TX.
>> >
>> > When I switch off the P3, the problem disapper.
>> >
>> > Today I loaded firmware 1.08 in P3 and then the problem occurs several
>> > times per hour, just receiving.
>> >
>> > I'm using HRD.
>> > K3 firmware is 4.25
>> > --
>> > OV1A Jens
>> >
>> >  Sent from my desktop PC with a nice big screen and a real keyboard.
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