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Re: Pile-up Mush

Posted by Mike Harris on Feb 07, 2012; 7:31pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Pile-up-Mush-tp7263348p7263448.html

Thanks for that Doc,

I was particularly interested in the HAGC time constant experiment.
Apologies for not making that clear.

Regards,

Mike VP8NO

On 07/02/2012 16:21, D. R. Evans wrote:

> Mike Harris said the following at 02/07/2012 12:03 PM :
>> G'day,
>>
>> Any progress or further insights into the reported low level CW pile-up
>> mush?
>>
>
> Here is what I do (this was originally a suggestion I received privately
> from K6LL):
>
> ----
>
> Another approach, which I haven't really tested under severe
> pileup conditions, is the following:
> AF GAIN = HIGH (to increase overall post-agc gain)
> Front panel AGC = FAST
> AGC DCY = SOFT
> AGC HLD = 0.20
> AGC PLS = NOR
> AGC SLP = 000 (steepest)
> AGC THR = 008 (highest)
> AGC - F = 200 (fastest)
> AGC - S = 020
>
> ----
>
> The one downside to this is that loud signals are too loud. I need to fix
> that before ARRL DX CW. I'm sure that tweaking one of the settings will
> solve that problem. But, at least here, the above settings solved the
> mushiness problem.
>
>    73 -- Doc  N7DR
>
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