The S meter on my Omni 6 plus never goes above S 7.
Any ideas what causes it?
Bry Carling
http://www.af4k.com
http://alltheaboveband.com
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From: "Cecil" <chacuff@cableone.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: [TenTec] A-Meter Calibration in 3.033xa
Date: Tue, Apr 9, 2013 9:30 am
I think it's kind of nice to have some S meter reading when I'm running with
the AGC off and managing the RF gain manually...
Cecil
K5DL
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On Apr 9, 2013, at 7:55 AM, Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Oh, I wouldn't be quite that harsh. I am curious, though, about why TT chose
> to do it this way.
>
> 73,
>
> Kim N5OP
>
> "People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as the
> music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith
>
> On Apr 8, 2013, at 23:16, Dave Heil <k8mn@frontiernet.net> wrote:
>
>> Ahaaaa! So when the S-meter doesn't reflect the AGC action, what we have is
>> an undocumented FEATURE. ;-)
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Dave Heil K8MN
>>
>> On 4/8/2013 13 17, Kim Elmore wrote:
>>> I just did a careful by-ear test and Barry is absolutely correct: the
>>> AGC *DOES,* indeed, behave exactly as it should under 3.033xa. As has
>>> been pointed out here and, apparently earlier, the S-meter does *NOT*
>>> follow the AGC action and instead acts as if the AGC were set to "fast"
>>> in earlier firmware versions.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>>
>>> Kim N%OP
>>
>>
>>
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