[Elecraft] K3 on SSB

[John Simmons]

Al,

How about sharing your settings?

-de John NI0K

Al Lorona wrote on 3/31/2020 1:47 PM:
> Jack beat me to the comment I was going to make. Far be it from me to contradict a seasoned contester like W3LPL, nor to dismiss the comments of many others, but I wonder how many "the K3 sounds bad on SSB" comments occur because of operator error in setting the AGC and gain controls improperly? In my experience, a number of such declarations are due to not knowing how to set the controls to optimum. Then, at some point, these perceptions attain legend status.
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> Now, if W3LPL's assertion is that the need to know *how* to set those controls properly poses a problem for contesters, that could be a valid point. If, for instance, the newest Flex 1,000,000 just works out of the box, with the default settings, that may appeal to contesters and I understand that.
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> However, it's never bothered me that the default AGC parameters of a K3 aren't optimum for me... that's why the controls are variable, no? I've learned to set them to obtain incredible SSB readability. My settings aren't magical; I got them from others and are based on my own measurements (which others have dismissed over the years, I don't know why).
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> Al  W6LX
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>>>> With the default settings things can get quite jumbled and the audio is not clean and crisp.
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