[1000mp] Icom vs Yaesu QSK???

[Barry N1EU]

I did a fair share of cw contesting with the MP, almost 100% qsk.  My issue 
with its qsk performance was certainly NOT objectional noises in the 
headphones or truncated characters.  It was the (at times) horrendously slow 
turn-around (i.e., recovery from transmit to receive) of the rig in fast AGC 
mode.  Fairly often, it would fall into a funk of taking several hundred 
msec for the s-meter to fall down and receiver gain to come back up (even 
with rf gain throttled back to 12 o'clock) and I would often lose the first 
few elements of calling stations.  The turn-around was actually markedly 
faster with slow AGC.  I owned two late MP's ('98 and '99) and they both 
developed this problem.  I've heard reports of newer MarkV's also behaving 
this way.

73,
Barry N1EU

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