I'm listening to the WAE contest this morning on 20 meters, and with the AGC
setting tweaks it sounds much better than yesterday. Maybe it was just
conditions at the time. With the slight bit of hang time added, it sounds
much more like my old Collins KWM-380 that had a very sophisticated
dual-loop AGC system.
I'll do some more listening...
Ron N6AHA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Grant Youngman" <nq5t@comcast.net>
To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 7:27 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] 2.037J reloaded
I reloaded 2.037J and did a master reset. I still noticed
the AGC is way fast compared to earlier versions, and may be
the source of reports of 'raspiness' in the receive audio.
I noticed this also.
After first loading 2.037 yesterday, I thought there was a bug, and that
AGC
was OFF in all settings. I finally went in to the SLOW setting and
dropped
the decay speed to the 1-5 range. Once I fiddled with that a bit, the
"fast" slow AGC slowed down, AND I could tell there was a difference
between
the other (MED, FAST, OFF) etc. settings
This happened twice, the second time after the radio had been sitting idle
but powered on for several hours.
If there's a bug lurking in there somewhere, I have not been able to get
it
to reproduce again. I did not observe the same behavior on the v2 Orion
with 2.059-- only on the Orion II at 2.037.
I agree with you, that it helps to add just a little AGC hang.
Grant/NQ5T
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