[NLRS] FT290RII troubles

[Chris Cox, N0UK]

PA Bias still working?  If that is missing, that would cause severe 
distortion on SSB but haveno distorting  effect on FM or CW signal 
quality.

73  Chris Cox, N0UK  email: chrisc at chris.org or chrisc at BritishCarAndDriver.Com
                                              or chris at SotaMINIs.Com
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On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Zack Widup wrote:

>
>
> Just curious if anyone has any suggestions for this rig which I use as
> a microwave IF.
>
> I started getting reports of very mushy/distorted voice on SSB a
> couple years ago. People tell me it's almost unintelligible.  I've
> done some tests with a couple other stations and it seems to be there
> no matter what power level I'm running, with or without the amp
> module.
>
> On FM the voice is fine. I'm told FM sounds great.
>
> CW is also fine. Power levels out are as expected in all modes.
>
> Any ideas where to look to cure this?
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
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