[1000mp] Apparent receiver overload on 80M

[D. J.]

Do you have your frontend menu 8-4 in flat or tuned?  I always keep 
mine in tuned, where in flat the gain on 80 M is high and makes for a 
noisy sounding band.  On ten and fifteen it's the opposite.

Dale

On Nov 29, 2004, at 14:43, John Becker wrote:

> Only on 80M, my S-meter runs S5-S7 all the time just on band noise. 
> The NB has no effect, and it doesn't sound like power line noise. If I 
> press the IPO switch, the S-meter goes to zero unless there is a 
> signal present. During the day, switching in 6dB of attenuation has 
> the same effect. At night, 6dB isn't always enough. These symptoms 
> indicate to me that something is overloading the receiver, but there 
> is nothing obvious to cause this. Any ideas as to what it could be, or 
> is this normal for the receiver on 80M with an inverted Vee?
>
> 73,
>
> John, K9MM
>
>
>
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