[1000mp] Icom vs Yaesu QSK???

[Ed Gosch]

My 2yr. old Mark V (200W Ver.), showed the AGC recovery problem
during the contest last weekend exactly as N1EU described.  After
the rig was on for awhile, I noticed that when I let up on the footswitch,
there was a few tenths of a second delay before the receive was restored.
I could see the S meter gradually come back up in signal strength.  All I
had to do was just tap the footswitch (not even transmit voice), and the
receive delay was noticeable.  On the "SLOW" AGC setting, the receiver
recovered instantaneously as one would expect.  I just turned the rig on
now and it doesn't exhibit this problem at all.  It might be another one of
those nuisances like "Monitor Roughness" caused by moderate use of the
transmitter.
W2UV


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry N1EU" <n1eu@hotmail.com>
To: <1000mp@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:31 PM
Subject: [1000mp] Icom vs Yaesu QSK???


> 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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