[1000mp] S-meters FT1000MP MkV

[Pete Smith]

At 07:21 PM 4/25/02 -0400, you wrote:
>The main receiver reads 3 s-units higher than the sub-receiver. Is this
>common? Is the main receiver a little hotter than the sub?

S-meters are amusing.  My Mark 5 is off for service, so I've been relying 
on my TS-930.  Where my local 10M line noise on a good day is S5 on the 
Mark 5, and on windy days can hit S9, it doesn't move the S-meter on the 
930.  It seems that the S-meter on the Mark 5 is extremely generous  below 
S9 -- something like 2 dB per S unit, some folks have reported -- while the 
TS-930 is much less so.  Subjectively, it's hard to tell myself that the 
noise level hasn't really improved, and to keep on harassing the power 
company, but I'm working on it (hi).


73, Pete N4ZR

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