[Elecraft] K3 and Preamp

[Fred Jensen]

I'm not sure anything in the menus would help for me ... the ability to 
adjust both the width and the center frequency from the front panel was 
what I was dreaming of.  Since all the "turn-ies" [i.e. knobs] seem to 
have multiple functions, I don't know how they could do it.  Possibly 
some external gizmo, similar to a PigKnob maybe?  A little hands-on 
training with someone who finds it useful would probably help too. :-)

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
- www.cqp.org

On 9/7/2014 7:20 AM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net
> <mailto:k6dgw at foothill.net>> wrote:
>
>     I've never had much luck with the K3 APF, I know others do and its
>     probably pilot error for me, but I wonder what it would take to make
>     it adjustable both in BW and frequency?  DSP Q-Multiplier? :-)
>
>
> There is something I remember from the old radios and some really "bad"
> headsets that were peaky in their response, and that was a moderate
> rolloff above and below that allowed one to hear up there and down there
> but did not allow it to dominate. I've asked for a config menu
> adjustment on the APF but that never had enough support from others to
> move it up on the K3 do list.
>
> The audio shaping could do that, but I can't put in a menu selection of
> favorite settings, there is only the one. It would need to be easily
> accessible for switching in/out on a QSO by QSO basis.