[TenTec] ICOM PROII vs 6+ experiment

[Dave Edwards]

Would it be a better test to turn the AGC's off??
...Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marijan Miletic, S56A" <s56a at bit.si>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 6:31 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] ICOM PROII vs 6+ experiment


> N4LQ> the fact that those products were LOUDER on the PRO than they were
on
> the Omni tells me something. Question is: What did it tell me?
>
> PRO has very fast AGC attack in order to prevent DSP ADC overflow.  It
also
> recovers more RX gain between dot pauses and therefore signal sounds
louder.
>
> In order to prevent this happening, I use slow AGC on FT-1000MP without
DSP
> detection and filtering in CW contesting.
> I might lose some weak signals between the strong ones but the CW rate is
> higher due to complete stronger callsigns acquisition.
> The beauty of RTTY is that confusing random noise influence is greatly
> reduced.  Others enjoy in QSK :-)
>
> 73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU
>
>
>
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