[Elecraft] CW AGC settings

[Bill Stravinsky]

 Don, I just read your article to see what the hubbub was about with AGC.  I live in a rural area in the woods so noise is really not a  problem.
I was taught a long time ago to keep the AGC off for weak signal reception and it stuck with me.  Those were the S line days.  And in your
article you mention ops that can copy into the noise and that certainly describes me, hi.  Its kind of an ESP thing.

Thanks for all your valuable info here on the reflector.

Bill
K3WJV

    On Thursday, April 26, 2018, 5:25:37 PM EDT, Don Wilhelm <donwilh at embarqmail.com> wrote:  
 
 Thank you Mike for mentioning that article.

Yes, adjusting your AGC Threshold and Slope is preferable to running 
with AGC off.

Fortunately, the K3/K3S has an adjustable limiter to help protect the 
ears for those operators who would still choose to run with AGC off.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 4/26/2018 4:44 PM, Mike K8CN wrote:
> Don, W3FPR wrote a succinct tutorial about AGC settings on his web page
> www.w3fpr.com under the title "Noisy" K3.  I had left my AGC settings for CW
> contesting at the default values until reading Don's guidance, and once I
> reset the AGC threshold and slope parameters I had much better CW contesting
> experiences.
> 
> Mike, K8CN
> 
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