Worked my K3 in the IARU contest this weekend (PA6HQ 20m cw). Performed flawlessly except for....
Yes the AGC, and in the following manner: I am one of thse people who always use AGC slow in CW and in SSB. (Please guys, spare me the comments that I have to ride the AGC, that is not the issue here.) When running in the contest, very strong stations are often followed bij very weak stations. After the K3-transmission the AGC starts at the point where it was left before the transmission. (Lyle explained that before). It would be nice if the Gain was reset in a smart way at the end of a transmission so I would not miss the first letter of a call when a weak station follows a strong one. By the way, this also stands for SSB. It was mentioned that the way that the agc is implemented now was the best in normal QSO'ing and I agree. But the K3 was built to be top performing in heavy contest / pile-up environment. And if the call rate is high, a recovered agc at the beginning of a reception looks like a fine feature to me. Would be nice if this smart reset for the agc could be implemented in the menu? Any one say "aye"? Thanks all, 73 Arie PA3A ______________________________________________________________ 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
