[Kenwood] TS 850 Audio Quality

Sat, 01 Feb 2003 14:11:36 +0000

Jason

Do you have the noise blanker turned on? This will cause the symptoms you 
desribe

Dave

At 08:41 AM 2/1/03 -0500, Jason Lehmann wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I have a 850 and was wondering if anyone could comment on the following 
>observation.  I was listening to 40 meters with small headphones last 
>night and heard what sounds to be some clipping/popping on audio 
>signals.  The noise was around a S5 and the signal was around S9.  The AGC 
>was set to fast and the RF gain was at max.  The 850 was in LSB with both 
>2.7 filters engaged.  With these settings the audio sounded as if the 
>peaks were getting past the AGC response and popping.  Switching to slow 
>AGC helped some but the only true fix was to lower the RF gain.  I also 
>tried some attenuation but that didn't seem to change the audio 
>quality.  Interestingly enough, when I engage the notch and set the knob 
>to anywhere in its range, the audio problem goes away.  I have an IC-746 
>next to the 850 and on the same signal the 746 doesn't have a bit of 
>trouble.  Does anyone have any thoughts?  Thanks.
>
>Jason
>
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