[Elecraft] New SSB Squelch function

[Don Wilhelm]

Lance,

You have your choice of either an RF gain control OR a Squelch control 
(but if you do not have the subreceiver, you can have both).

If you choose to have the squelch control, then the RF gain can be 
handled by using the attenuator and the preamp, and the AGC will also 
work to limit the RF Gain when listening to strong signals.

All Squelch controls I have used conform to the way the K3 Squelch 
control works - it controls the level at which the squelch opens.  Think 
of it as being numbered 1 to 9 (like the S-meter scale).  When at 
position 2, signals greater than S-2 will open the squelch, but if set 
to 9, only signals above S-9 will open it.  The numbers I have used are 
only for illustration, there is no exact correlation that I know about.

If you do not have the subreceiver installed, you can set the CCONFIG 
menu SQ MAIN = Sub Pot and you can have the RF gain control on the main 
knob and the squelch on the sub knob.  Yes, the same is possible with 
the subRX installed (set both SQ MAIN and SQ SUB to Sub Pot, but you 
then have no RF gain control on the sub.

73,
Don W3FPR

Lance Collister, W7GJ wrote:
> I downloaded the latest beta with the squelch and tried to set it up, but I wonder if 
> there is something about it that I don't understand, or need to adjust differently. 
> I was hoping I could basically set the squelch with the RF/SQL knob on the front 
> panel...crank it all the way clockwise for full on with no squelch (for trying to 
> detect weak signals in the noise) and then back it off as desired to set the squelch 
> threshold for the strength of the signals required to break the squelch.
>
> However, in my setup it seems to function just the opposite!  The squelch is always 
> on when the RF/SQL control is fully clockwise, and when I back off on it, it OPENS 
> the squelch as some signal level greater than the no-signal noise level.  How do you 
> adjust it to listen with the RF gain fully open so you can hear the noise level?
>
> Right now, the only solution I have been able to find is to disable the squelch 
> entirely in the CONFIG.  MNI TNX for any guidance!  VY 73, Lance
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