[1000mp] While tuningup/down the band hearing blobsFT1000MP MarkV Field

[Cecil Acuff]

My D model is doing the same thing...and actually it's a louder 
pop....checked it last evening.

Cecil
WB5VCE
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Connors" <monotreme at ntlworld.com>
To: "All about Yaesu 1000mp" <1000mp at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: [1000mp] While tuningup/down the band hearing blobsFT1000MP 
MarkV Field


>I can't tune down to 98.34kHz but the 'blob' (rx muting while the vco 
>relocks to a new 'big step' in frequency?) is certainly more obvious at 
>106.5kHz. An interesting curiosity but no observed disadvantage on this 
>FT1000MP MkV Field - which leads me to suspect that may be more of a 
>problem on some samples of the MP than others.
>
> Pete, G4PLZ
>
> Earl W Cunningham wrote:
>> Pete, N4ZR wrote:
>>
>> "...it is a synthesizer artifact, and is sufficiently unobtrusive that
>> Yaesu left it alone.  Certainly, I'm not conscious of it unless I'm
>> actively looking for it.  There is one at 14.008.31 USB."
>> ==========
>> Pete is the only one who accurately described the "blob" (which sounds
>> like a click).  It occurs exactly every 8.192 kHz, beginning at 106.50
>> kHz (98.34 kHz if you tune down that low).  The one at 14008.31 is the
>> 1710th harmonic of 8.192 (although the "click" itself is not a harmonic).
>>
>> This "click" exists on all MPs, MK Vs and Fields, regardless of those who
>> say they don't have it.  As Pete said, you have to listen for it while
>> tuning across one of them.  The "click" happens only when you tune across
>> the frequency -- it doesn't continuously click if you park on a frequency
>> it happens on.
>>
>> 73, de Earl, K6SE
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