I think what Lee meant to say in his item 5 was "ALC" (a transmit feature),
not "AGC" (a receive feature).
Bill W5WVO
Barry N1EU wrote:
Lee Buller wrote:
5. AGC issues. Heck, I have not used AGC in years. I thought it was
worthless years ago, so I've never used it with an amp. If you have
a good signal going into the amp, then you don't need the AGC stuff.
Dumb. Garbage in ... garbage out. Clean in....Clean out. AGC...come
on...SHeeesh!
Actually, K3's AGC is quite good. The reviewer had commented: "The
receiver AGC is not enough to handle strong signals over 30dB over S9
making them sound distorded,of course turning back the RF gain fixed
the problem but that never happens in the Pro3 even with signals up
to 50 dB from local hams and the received audio is always clear."
If the review had RTFM (read the fine manual), perhaps he would have
figured out to increase the AGC slope value (to 15) in the menu and
backed off on his AF gain. This would have fixed his problem.
Perhaps the K3 would benefit by having the AGC Slope value default to
15 instead of 10.
73,
Barry N1EU
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