Douglas, To avoid bringing down the audio level of the station you are working, again, the "ducking" might be better done by automatic change of bandwidth instead of automatic change of gain setting:
I would be listening around the band with, say 500 Hz, find a station, use e.g. CWT to tune properly. As soon as I call him, my receive bandwidth automatically drops to 100 Hz, and stays there until say 1 second has passed without any transmission from me; then the bandwidth widens to 500 Hz again until I transmit again. Saves the trouble of manual action. If instead I was calling CQ, I may or may not prefer this mode, as it would make me hear the correctly tuned caller before I can hear ones that are off frequency. 73, Erik K7TV ----- Original Message ----- From: "DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL" <[email protected]> To: "Elecraft Reflector" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 1:04 PM Subject: [Elecraft] K3: ducking this topic > Wayne said, > In the interim you might try a non-zero value of CW semi-QSK delay, > assuming you don't need full break-in. > > > My comments: > This request is something I've never heard of and I am having a hard > time imagining an actual use for it. If you turn the AF down (or duck > it), then they station that you still want to hear must be relatively > "loud"...or at least above the din. > > So in addition to Wayne's suggestion (which I agree with and was > actually my first reaction), how about just turning down the RF gain > for that QSO to the point where the noise (almost?) is out of the > picture but the guy you want to hear, should he break you, is still > audible? _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] 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
