Hi Frank: Suggest you go to the operators manual and look up the alignment for
the upper sideband carrier oscillator. It soulds as tho it may be out of
bandpass. Remember that any adjustment you make will possibly have an effect on
the other sideband so the alignment proceedure will have to be performed
several times before it balances out...............Joe
frank ayers jr wrote:
> Hi all
> Got a question that I'm hoping somebody can help me with.
> I've got an Omni V. Great radio, use it as an IF for VHF work and for 10
> meters. I have the 2.4, 1.8, 500 and 250 filters plus a 1.8 in the "narrow"
> slot.
> Here's the problem. On USB, if I use either the 1.8 or the 2.4 and narrow
> combo I have to play with the passband tuning in order to make speech
> intellegible. If I use both 1.8 filters there is no way I can understand
> speech. Now I know I can't expect hi-fi, but it would be nice if I could
> use that combination.
> The odd thing is that on LSB (like 75 meters) the 1.8 or 2.4 plus narrow
> sound about fine with no passband tweaking and I can use both 1.8 filters
> with a bit of passband jiggling.
> My questions are - is this normal and if not what do I adjust to fix it.
> Or - should I just get some Inrads?
>
> Frank
> W2FCA
>
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