Hi John,
What do you mean by "voice peaks"? How are you measuring "voice peaks"?
You cannot really see voice peaks with the built-in meter on the Paragon
or Paragon II, or most any rig that uses a moving coil meter with a
simple diode detector power indicating circuitry. To really see voice
peaks you need an oscilloscope. You may be able to measure peak power
with a wattmeter that has a peak power measurement mode. The difference
in what you see on your Paragon versus other rigs (if you are talking
about the meter in the rig) could be just due to differences in the time
constants in the power detector circuitry, or the inertia of the meter
movement. You could have identical real RF power envelopes from two
rigs, yet have radically different power meter readings because of
differences in the time constants of the metering system.
DE N6KB
john ferro wrote:
bob, compared to other rigs i have owned - that is what i am comparing to - also a
paragon II i owned in the past gave nice high voice peaks with the shure 444D - ten tec
has told me that there were about 6 different audio boards for the paragon and paragon II
radios - could be that my paragon II had a better match with the dynamic type mics than
my paragon does - i also had some yaesu and icom radios - none of which i used a dynamic
type mic, but a "powered" mic and they all gave very nice voice peaks. by the
way thanks for your great suggestion the other day regarding reversing the polarity on
the shure 444d to increase the voice peaks - it actually helped a bit, but not as much as
i was hoping for. like i said i have a ten tec mic coming on monday - i'll try that out
and let everyone know. and yes i get about 120 watts in the tune mode. thanks again.
sincerely, john
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