[TenTec] Topband: BDR redux

[Rick Westerman]

Barry, I agree with you. Maybe I'm old-fashion, but I don't even
use the CUT.  I just use the BW/PBT.

However, Sinisa is highly exaggerating the effort to adjust the
AGC threshold.
I tried it for the first time two nights ago, and without looking
in the manual, it took me about 10 seconds to find the adjustment
and make an adjustment.  Since I left the threshold highlighted,
it then took about 2 seconds after that for each new adjustment.
I agree that seeing a micro volt number associated with the AGC
is pretty meaningless to me, but to be honest, the S-Unit was
also meaningless to me the first time I used a receiver.

So here is my take on the whole thing.  How many times do you
make this adjustment in a 24 hour period?  Probably a few times.
How many times do you have to adjust the volume control on a
classical rig?  Probably a hundred times during a contest.

I'd say it's a good tradeoff as is, though Barry's suggestion
would be (for my operating mode) even better.  For normal, daily
use, I think I'm going to try Carl's software.  I don't know if I
would use additional software during a serious contest, though.
I'll save my judgment until after I've tried it.

73
Rick



-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Barry N1EU
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 3:19 AM
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: [TenTec] Topband: BDR redux


My pipe dream would be to reallocate the "Cut" control
(which is just another way of doing BW/PBT) so that it
does AGC Threshold on the "L" setting and AGC Decay on
the "H" setting  ;-)

73,
Barry N1EU



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