More information and comments:
Brian wrote:
>I thought Autek cautioned against directly connecting the meter to the
>RX input terminals. The signal level is quite high for this direct
>connect.
>You got away with it this time.... Others may not be as lucky.
>73 de Brian/K3KO
I plugged the Autek into my spectrum analyser. It's only -10dbm. Hardly
enough to "burn out" the receiver... If anything, a guys gotta be very
careful not to "bump" the key when making this measurement--or
bye-bye-autek...
Mike wrote:
>Unless your system noise is limited by your receivers internal thermal
>noise floor (usually not the case on 160 meters), the mismatch loss caused
>by the 220 ohm termination will probably be inconsequential. You can check
>for this by listening to the noise floor with and without your antenna
connected.
>If on the quietest night of the year, your noise floor still drops when you
>disconnect your most inefficient receive antenna, you have nothing to worry
>about (this indicates that atmospheric noise dominates in your receive
system).
>
>73 de Mike, W4EF
I have a shielded loop that is pretty dead. When I disconnect the antenna
the noise drops to a very low level. I have to turn the volume way up just
to hear the hiss when no antenna is connected.
Tom wrote:
>Not quite everything. The test must also be done with the
>narrowest filters to be used. The receiver should be terminated in a
>dummy load equal to the the antenna impedance presented at the
>antenna terminal of the receiver in the test.
>
>73, Tom W8JI
I don't claim to be a rocket scientist. I don't understand how any filter
in an IF will change the input impedance at the antenna port. Just to
satisfy my thinking, I checked it. There is no difference in the RX input
impedance no matter how I have the filters set or the mode set. Perhaps I
misunderstood what you were talking about...
I've got the schematic (all 6 "c" sized prints--oh boy) on the IC746 so I'll
study the input circuit to see what's going on. My suspicion is that the
auto tuner is performing some wild transforms and no matter what I do to the
signal presented, it's going to match to the transmitter output anyway. It
sounds like about 2 cups of coffee and a major "bonding" experience with the
schematics is in order...
Thanks for all the input (no pun intended) on RX input...
Ford-N0FP
ford@cmgate.com
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