[Elecraft] CW AGC settings
Fred Jensen
k6dgw at foothill.net
Thu Apr 26 18:15:32 EDT 2018
I *always* have AGC on. To each his own. Don has an excellent and
enlightening AGC dissertation at www.w3fpr.com which is worth reading.
See "Noisy K3." You asked for settings, mine are:
THR=10
SLP=14
PLS=nor
HLD=0.1
DCY=nor
Fast=120
Slow=20
I operate mainly CW although I do listen to SSB a little and do a little
general coverage SWL listening. I run fast AGC on CW, usually slow on
SSB. Your threshold setting will depend somewhat on your ambient noise
level. Slope seems to be a personal preference. I like to hear a
difference between signals of different strength.
Before we moved, I was surrounded by electric fences [some mine] which
always started arcing in the spring when the weeds grew up on the fence
line. The noise blanker would take the pulses out, PLS=nor prevented
them from activating the AGC. I think DCY is personal preference, nor
seems to work best for my compromised hearing. Hope this helps ... and
actually answers your questions?
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 4/26/2018 12:01 PM, Bill Stravinsky via Elecraft wrote:
> I never use AGC on cw, only on ssb (and that ain't too often, hi)
>
> Bill
> K3WJV
>
> On Thursday, April 26, 2018, 1:17:25 PM EDT, Leroy Buller <lee.buller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all. Long time posting here. I am interested in CW AGC settings you
> like on your K3. I have been fooling around with the settings and wonder
> what others like. I am interested in CW contest settings.
>
> Lee K0WA
>
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