[amsat-bb] Re: Turn off AGC when receiving BPSK-1000

[N0JY]

I have no option to turn off AGC with the FT-736R.  I had been running 
on the Medium setting (my default) and have switched to Slow now.  I'm 
not sure to say because it's rather subjective just watching, but I 
think it has slightly improved capture especially at AOS and LOS as well 
as when I have de-sensing due to my other VHF stations so rudely 
beaconing their APRS and WL2K info without regard to the science going 
on!  ;-)

Jerry
N0JY

On 8/17/2011 6:24 PM, Alan Cresswell wrote:
> Hi Mark, Phil,
>
> That's interesting.  I have collected all my passes on the TS2000 with the
> AGC on and set to the longest setting.  This is mainly because I often
> record the signal level every 0.5 seconds during a pass which requires the
> AGC to be on and the longest setting irons out any short fades.  I will turn
> the AGC off and look at the statistics over a few passes but given that with
> the AGC on I get almost all the available frames I don't expect to see much
> difference.  It will be interesting to see.
>
> 73
> Alan
> ZL2BX
>


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