Michael Black wrote:

In that case though, you should be worried about that nearby strong signal
dropping the gain of the receiver so you can't hear the weak signal...

may be you are not thinking of cw...

Provided the SNR is good enough, you can filter and post-amplify your
weak signal, e.g. with a good AF filter, or a dsp.

Of course, if the IF stages are (reasonably) linear in response, you can
disable the AGC, but this would be no answer to the original question

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