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Subject: [TenTec] Omni V ssb reception
From: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk (patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:38:58 -0000 (GMT)
Does the noise blanker work ?? I never found it useful, but it does
cause distortion if you crank it up.

Never had an audio quality complaint, but according to local
stations, there is a difference in my voice as between 80 m lower
sideband and 20 m upper sideband. I can actually detect this on
receive; I usually move the passband tuning on 80 a tad to the left
to give more comfortable audio on 80 LSB from guys I know personally
(and also work on 20 USB). This does not work on transmit; I still
sound "different". 
This has got to be related to filter passband shape - probably no two
filters are exactly the same anyway.
(Or is an oscillator out of alignment ??)

Its also possible to screw up with the settings of FADE and BPF.
I made the rig useless on CW last week by goofing over this. Took me
a day to figure I why the signals sounded so weird ...

I use an external speaker, (Radio Shack Minimus 7) and it is not
happy if I turn the audio too high. This is rather surprising; the
Minimus 7 should easily handle anything the Omni-V can throw at it.
The internal speaker has the same problem with high audio levels, only
more so. I conclude that the Omni-V audio may tend to distort, but
only at much higher volume settings than I normally need/use. 

John G3JAG

On 24-Jan-99 W9SN wrote:
> 
> Being a lover of my Omni V,  I'd say one of two things here on
> this.  One
> you
> have your noise blanker on and turned up.  Or there is an internal
> problem
> in the rig.  I alway comment on how well the audio of the Omni V
> is.  Every
> Omni V I've ever listened to, sounded great and never like you
> describe.
> Good luck......
> P.S. anyone know what issue of QST had the homebrew cw keyboard
> project?
> I think it was in the past 5 years or sooner, been digging through
> my stack
> in
> desperation......73...Steve
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>
>>I purchased an Omni V recently and it performs very well on cw.
>>However I
>>find it necessary to reduce the  RF gain control significantly to
>>clearly
>>receive ssb signals. If I leave that control in max.clockwise
>>position
>>some of the signal seem garbled
>>and/or hard to tune in. The manual doesn't provide much help. Is
>>this a
>>normal condition Thanks. Charles Burkhardt. K0GPF cburk001@juno.com
>>
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E-Mail: patents@dx0man.prestel.co.uk
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: 24-Jan-99
Time: 22:20:01
John Crux
Consultant in product forgery - Asia and
Africa

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