That is an interesting idea Keith. I've been reducing the gain by hand whenever the band noise is objectionable while sending. Been doing that since I was using a regenerative receiver back in the early 1950's.
But I also grabbed the gain control on the board at KVCR when I was spinning platters (the real VINYL platters) when I wanted to talk over the music back in the 50's too. So I guess it's a good idea whose time has come, just like people on the board don't need to play with the gain control any longer. But I wonder just how automatic our world is becoming? A popular theme in sci fi fiction back in the 50's was that the human race would so completely automate things that the "computers" would see to our physical needs and we'd become disembodied beings floating in an energy field because we no longer needed bodies to manipulate anything ourselves - until the computers decided they didn't need us any longer. Guess I'm archaic. I still enjoy running on the beach, sketching a scene with an old pencil and paper, wiggling my own CW key or turning my own gain controls. I'm definitely one of the ones who is now obsolete I guess... But happily obsolete :-) Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- No, the manual way to achieve this effect is to turn down the AF gain while you're transmitting. Sidetone is still there nice & loud but the RX audio that you hear between elements is reduced. When you're done sending, you reach for the AF gain and turn it back up to the normal listening level. Now, imagine it was automatic. As soon as you send, the K3 turns AF gain down and leaves it down until a second or so after you finish sending, then it turns it back up to where it was. This way, while you're sending, the AF signal that you hear between dots & dashes is quieter than when you're just listening. Is that any clearer? If not, ask more questions :-) - Keith N1AS - - K3 711 - _______________________________________________ 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
