Ha, ha!! It does that. But many of us O.T.s worked for years listening to the thumps and howls of an overloaded receiver as our "sidetone" while transmitting or listening to monitors using sawtooth oscillators to generate the tone.
But, really, the limiter is an ear-protection device to keep your hearing intact for the few seconds it takes to back off the gain. I'm an old commercial CW operator from the 1950's and grew up with the audio gain set fairly high and controlling the listening level with the RF gain. But modern AGC such as the K3/K3S has is so good I'm getting out of my old habits. 73, Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Dave Hachadorian Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 5:29 PM To: Reflector Elecraft Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Contest Settings I used to operate CW with AGC OFF, but a loud signal would come along and trigger the AF Limiter, which causes gross distortion. Now I operate CW with fast AGC , AGC SLP = 0, and AGC THR = 20. It's almost as good as no AGC , and you don't have to worry about the AF Limiter. Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Yuma, AZ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
