[1000mp] Icom vs Yaesu QSK???

Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:41:01 -0500

I experienced the same symptoms and problem with my 3 year old MK V.  In my
case the problem turned out to be something related to the software I was
running (TRX Manager).  Never did solve the problem.  I just stopped using
TRX Manager to get it to stop.

May be a lead in that.

73...   Bill K3WA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Gosch" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [1000mp] Icom vs Yaesu QSK???

> 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" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> 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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