When Wayne decided to remove these menu items he also mentioned that if there was a need he could put them back. None of the field testers seemed to have missed them however.
------------------------- 73, Greg - AB7R Whidbey Island WA NA-065 K3#0009 On Thu Oct 11 16:49 , Don Rasmussen sent: >I don't know about anyone else, but I bought K3 based >on being able to adjust these (5) things. Even if they >can be "optimized", I WANT to be able to set these for >my preference as advertised. > >Attack - Hold - Decay - Threshold - Slope. > >All of these have meaning to me. > >If any of these are not really available or do not >work as advertised I'll be majorly bummed. > > >[Elecraft] K3 AGC Adjustment Parameters >Vic K2VCO vic at rakefet.com >Thu Oct 11 14:32:33 EDT 2007 > >Previous message: [Elecraft] K3 AGC Adjustment >Parameters >Next message: [Elecraft] Soldering stations >Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ >author ] > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >dhhdeh at comcast.net wrote: > >> But I need some enlightenment. In reading the FAQ's >concerning the >> AGC parameters of the K3, I found the following >discussion: > >> "Are the settings variable in terms of attack, hang, >and decay? In >> the menu, you can set the following parameters for >AGC: Attack time, >> Hold (Hang) time, Decay rate (in dB/sec for Fast >and Slow), >> Threshold, and Slope. Slope sets the compression you >get from AGC, >> whether you like everything above the threshold to >be flat (S4 and 40 >> over S9 are the same level) or some sort of slope >(2:1, 10:1 >> whatever) so stronger signals are somewhat louder." > >> In the User Manual under the program menus on page >50, I only see >> adjustable AGC paramenters for Hold, Pulse and >Slope. Nothing on >> adjusting the 'attack time', 'decay rate' or >'threshold'. > >> Did I miss something elsewhere in the manual or am I >misinterpreting >> something? > >The other parameters were there in early beta versions >of the firmware, >but were removed for production. I believe (but you >will have to get >this from the horse's mouth) that it was found >possible to optimize >these settings, so they didn't need to be adjustable. > >I know, for example, that the attack time was >originally adjustable so >that you could set it to ignore short noise pulses. >But since then, the >AGC Pulse function was implemented to deal with this, >and so the attack >can be as short as possible for best performance. >-- >73, >Vic, K2VCO >Fresno CA >http://www.qsl.net/k2vco > > >_______________________________________________ >Elecraft mailing list >Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >You must be a subscriber to post to the list. >Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > >Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm >Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
