K3-4.51 Firmware

[k6dgw]

I installed it, it works.  We have electric fences around us, and I
often hear them, especially in the spring when weeds grow up and they
arc.  I find them with my KX1 and the neighbors just let me fix them.
I've got a strong one that just started, I think it's ours.  The
pastures are still a bit squishy in places and I wasn't looking forward
to the KX1 trip when I discovered the 4.51 IF Noise Blanker takes it
completely out on NAR4.  I wasn't aware the NB was changed in 4.51 but
the NB never took the fences out before.

NR is radically better too.  I've been leaving it engaged all the time,
it really kills the power line hash.  I don't know what to do with AGC.
  It's sort of like my wife sending me to the grocery store to get salad
dressing and I'm standing in front of the shelves with way more choices
than I'm prepared to make.  In the case of the K3 AGC, I don't even know
how I *want* it to perform, let alone how to make it do that.  I'm sure
one of my better informed friends will eventually give me the "K3 AGC
Cliff Notes."

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012
- www.cqp.org

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[ve3dvy]

Im new to the K3 and only have had it a month now and I too was baffled
and confused even before 4.51 about agc,  oh heck I was baffled and
confused before that even but that's besides the point.    I just loaded
4.51  yesterday  so I pulled out what I now call  the "K3 Bible"  KE7X's
book The Elecraft K3: Design, Configuration, And Operation      a book
well known on this reflector.   I read the AGC section.   It helped
allot but what was more helpfull was the section on KE7X's web page
http://www.ke7x.com/  under K3 miscellaneous information in K3 AGC story
Chapters 1-3 plus the info on 4.51.    Give it a read and you might find
a better understanding of the new AGC.     as to what to do now?   time
and trial will tell and I am sure that with the wide range of settings
there will be a million "this is the best setting" opinions out
there.    One of the many things that attracted me to the K3 was that
you could customize so many aspects and not just except what the maker
thinks the masses want.      I cant really say Ive noticed a big change
in the way the NR works but I havn't really had time to test it either.
   I guess they all work hand in hand.


On 5/25/2012 3:50 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:

> I installed it, it works.  We have electric fences around us, and I
> often hear them, especially in the spring when weeds grow up and they
> arc.  I find them with my KX1 and the neighbors just let me fix them.
> I've got a strong one that just started, I think it's ours.  The
> pastures are still a bit squishy in places and I wasn't looking forward
> to the KX1 trip when I discovered the 4.51 IF Noise Blanker takes it
> completely out on NAR4.  I wasn't aware the NB was changed in 4.51 but
> the NB never took the fences out before.
>
> NR is radically better too.  I've been leaving it engaged all the time,
> it really kills the power line hash.  I don't know what to do with AGC.
>    It's sort of like my wife sending me to the grocery store to get salad
> dressing and I'm standing in front of the shelves with way more choices
> than I'm prepared to make.  In the case of the K3 AGC, I don't even know
> how I *want* it to perform, let alone how to make it do that.  I'm sure
> one of my better informed friends will eventually give me the "K3 AGC
> Cliff Notes."
>
> 73,
>
> Fred K6DGW
> - Northern California Contest Club
> - CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012
> - www.cqp.org
>
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