http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/K3-Receiver-Noise-Level-Evaluation-and-Adjustment-tp4187070p4192018.html
tap Display and be told what the Default value is for that parameter.
It's easy. It takes less than a minute to do all of the AGC parameters.
> Short version: put a way to reset to default AGC in the K3 itself. Do this ASAP.
>
> Long version:
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Wayne Burdick<
[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>
>> If you feel that the noise level of your K3's receiver is excessive,
>> please try the following:
>>
> ....snip....
>
>
>> 3. Use the factory defaults for AGC. These were carefully chosen to
>> adjust gain in the presence of significant band noise.
>>
> ....snip....
>
> While the advice is official, there is not much point in posting "set
> to factory defaults" unless you include what those numbers are in your
> text.
>
> Otherwise the reader has to do the research (Google, site search,
> thumb manual looking for numbers...) to determine what the factory
> defaults are.
>
> Digging around on the web site, etc, will defeat a lot of readers. Not
> because your site is trashy (it's not), or the manual is bad (it's
> not), or K3 users are stupid (they're not), but because in human
> evolution web-searching was never the reason why one did or didn't
> live long enough to pass on one's genes to one's children. That and
> such things as RTFM were not Darwinian criteria. More than that...
>
> Human behavior studies in information assimilation on all kinds of us
> regular folks show over and over that on average humans don't do well
> at drilling down in information, become quickly bored, tired,
> irritated, frustrated, confused just to name a few. And while they may
> doggedly stay with such tasks to keep a job to feed and house the
> family, teeth-grinding information drilling to find the default
> numbers does not cut it in our pastime activities. Moreover, even
> relating to work, studies with competent well-thought-of clerical
> personnel showed that errors, misreads, no-finds, and nasty remarks
> increased dramatically with the number of steps to fetch, or with any
> uncertainty as to the source, appearance or presentation of the needed
> information.
>
> Given the amount of attention, confusion and complaints related to
> noise and AGC, wouldn't it make sense to identify your default
> CONFIG:AGCxxx setting numbers with a "dEF" to the left of the number
> when VFO A rolls over it, so that when the folks from Mount Aptos say
> to use the default AGC, that can be easily set and/or confirmed and/or
> returned to without needing to dig up the numbers somewhere?
>
> 73, Guy.
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