[RTTY] Re: Noise with MMTTY

[Peter Laws]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 llindblom at juno.com wrote:

->
-> I typed AFC in the fist sentence and it should of been AGC, me bad!
->
-> -- llindblom at juno.com wrote:
->
-> This is very reason I alway turn off the AFC before diving into the
-> crowded portions of any band on any mode.  AGC off can be harder on the
-> ears at times but this prevents a strong nuisance signal from totally
-> covering up the ESP signal you are trying to copy.

I turn AFC off, too, on MMTTY as this causes you to be off freq in some
cases.  Nice feature, but better to get the signal tuned in properly near
as I can tell.

AFAIK, I can't disable AGC on my Icom, but can only select "fast" and
"slow" ...

--
73,
Peter Laws
N5UWY/9