[Elecraft] K3 AGC settings for weak signal CW

2013-01-17 Thread Chad Wasinger
Would anyone be willing to share their preferred AGC settings for receiving weak cw signals? Specifically, I'm wanting to fine tune my settings for listening to at the noise 2 meter and 6 meter beacons. Thanks!ChadN0YK

Re: [Elecraft] K3 AGC settings for weak signal CW

2013-01-17 Thread Chad Wasinger
To: chadwasin...@outlook.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 AGC settings for weak signal CW Chad, AGC doesn't kick in till way above weak signal on any reasonable values of THR and slope. Of course a mast mounted preamp on 2M would help a lot. One can get by with a back of the rig preamp for 6M

Re: [Elecraft] K3 AGC settings for weak signal CW

2013-01-17 Thread Don Wilhelm
Chad, You will be better off setting the AGC parameters to match your operating needs. Go to my website www.w3fpr.com and read the article on Noisy K3 to guilde you. The menu parameters have been expanded since that article was written, but the principles are the same, but they now cover a