I found that the AGC mod for the Argosy II to cure the pops resulted in
poor QSK (natural tradeoff, I hadn't thought about it till I performed
the mod). I took my AGC back to the original values and learned to
appreciate pops on occasion.
73
Clark
WA3JPG
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 07:23 PM, roger wrote:
> Gene,
> I made the mod on one of these Many years ago, I am not sure but I
> think I
> used the Mod for the Corsair I or maybe the Argosy. If you will find
> one of
> these Mods they are the exact same. I do remember that the mod was not
> exactly the hang time that I wanted and I used a different value cap or
> resistor to make it to my liking. It sure makes a fine rig better.
> KO4O
> Roger
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gene A. Williamson" <genewill@ordata.com>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 09:26
> Subject: [TenTec] Century/22 AGC mod: urban legend?
>
>
>> I've chased the C/22 AGC mod to reduce "popping" all over the Internet,
>> but haven't nailed it down. Neither, apparently, has anyone else.
>>
>> Does such a mod exist? I can make do with riding the RF gain, but
>> that's a
>> bit too much fiddling. The ARRL reviewer was ga-ga over the C/22's
>> AGC, so
>> maybe I'm missing something???
>>
>> 73 Gene N7YW
>>
>>
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