[Elecraft] K3 suggestion...another

[Lu Romero]

Don:

I tend to use Slow a lot too, but fast flutter and fast QSB
as described by Ted are not handled well with Slow and sort
of fall through the cracks between my Slow setting and my
Fast setting.  I could turn AGC off and deal with it
manually, but then I place my ears at risk, even though I
have AF LIMIT set to clip at 17.  I try to run as little AF
gain as possible to save my ear sensitivity.  I always worry
when AGC is off.

It just would be nice to be able to just punch the AGC
button and select one more preset set up for something
between the parameters set in S and F to deal with
conditions on, say, 15 and 10 with polar flutter or on a
groundwave signal from a station in my own section that I
need for a multiplier.

One more preset would be helpful in the heat of battle.  I
know I could go into the menu and adjust it, but then I
would have to go into the menus and put the settings back
when Im done.  And at the 23rd hour of a 24 hour BIC
session, this tasks my feeble brain just a bit.

Of course, it is entirely possible to build a macro to do
the same thing. I have not had time to explore this and,
save for a firmware update that adds the third preset, it
may be the logical way to fix this issue.

But it would have been indeed nice to have the third preset
from the git go that, as a contester, I could certainly use.

Just sayin'!

Lu-W4LT

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Message: 22
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:26:55 -0500
From: Don Wilhelm <w3fpr at embarqmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 suggestion...another
To: Ted Bryant <W4NZ at comcast.net>
Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Message-ID: <4ED5B08F.1040506 at embarqmail.com>
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Ted.

I suggest you "stick with the contesters" who almost
universally use AGC 
S with the K3.  The AGC characteristics for the K3 are more
adjustable 
than for most transceivers (see the K3 menu), and those menu
parameters 
become more important than the AGC attack and decay times.

73,
Don W3FPR