[Elecraft] K3 RX Audio

[Johnny Siu]

Hello Trevor,
 
The audio of K3 may be ok for CW but it is only acceptable for SSB voice mode.  Comparing K3 with my Icoms, I would prefer the audio from my Icoms.
 
Having said that, I still used K3 in the recent IARU contest because of it excellent selectivity.  I used CM500 during the contest.  Actually, I was not quite care about the audio during the contest as long as I could copy weak signals among the big guns.
 
Apart from audio, the manual notch of K3 is NOT within AGC loop and I consider it is the major short coming of its design.  During the contest, I had a strong carrier adjoining my desire weak signal, the strong carrier desensed the AGC making the copy difficult.  K3's manual notch was useless in this situation.  I eventually chose the turn off the AGC to cope with this difficult suitation.

TNX & 73,


Johnny VR2XMC


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 寄件人︰ Trevor Dunne <trevor_dunne at yahoo.com>
收件人︰ "Elecraft at mailman.qth.net" <Elecraft at mailman.qth.net> 
傳送日期︰ 2013年07月19日 (週五) 7:16 PM
主題︰ [Elecraft] K3 RX Audio
  

Hi All

I am allmost ready to order my K3 but I keep reading about people that are unhappy with the RX audio,

Is this still a problem or has there been changes made to slove it, Can someone point me to a good guide on how to set the RX up to remove the harsh sounding audio.

I will mainly be using a headset as DXing is my main interest.

 
Thanks
Trevor
EI2GLB

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