[Elecraft] RF and AF Gain

[kg9hfrank at gmail.com]

Funny Ted,
I am starting to use the RF gain more now in the last few months then ever before… Maybe just tired to listening to the noise floor, hi hi.
Frank KG9H


> On Oct 29, 2015, at 12:48 PM, Dauer, Edward <edauer at law.du.edu> wrote:
> 
> I believe there is another reason to reduce the RF gain with the AF above
> what it otherwise would be; and I donąt know that it has anything to do
> with AGC or the evolution of detectors over time.  I have been doing it
> for over a half century and I still do it with my KX3 on CW.  In casual
> rag chews where the S/N ratio is robust, backing off the RF gain is
> another way to get rid of externally-created noise relative to audio
> output.  It just makes for more comfortable copy.  (I almost never do it
> with the K3, since that rig is used almost exclusively for DX and contest
> work, where comfort isnąt an asset.)  Maybe itąs a purely subjective
> phenomenon, but it works for me.
> 
> 
> Ted, KN1CBR
> 
> 
> 
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