[amsat-bb] Re: AO27/TS2000

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From: <wa4hfn at comcast.net>
To: "AMSAT" <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 8:45 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] AO27/TS2000
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> Just installed a preamp Ar2 { Advance Reciever Research) M# MSP432DG-160
and the birdy that the TS2000 has on AO27 recieve is now gone and I was able
to hear the bird from start of the pass to the end.Why ,I do not know, but
the preamp seems to kill the birdy . Has anyone found this to be the same.
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> WA4HFN Damon
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Hi Damon, WA4HFN

The pramplifier "seems" to kill the birdy because the preamplifier gain is
very high and so the birdy is belove the noise introduced by the
preamplifier itself.

I guess that without any signal on the band your S meter reading is well
above S-9 only because of the preamplifier noise that is apparently killing
the birdy.

If you reduce the gain of your preamplifier to get an S-meter reading of say
S-1 or S-2 without any signal on the band then the birdy will appear again.

Best 73" de

i8CVS Domenico