It sounds like I have the same problem as Jack, and I upgraded from 2.82. The noise floor appears to rise with the signals and there is a crackle generated by the speech peaks. It all sounds quite strange.
Stephen G4SJP K3#980 On 18/03/2009 01:00, "list1" <li...@pituch.net> wrote: > > Hi Wayne and all, > Just before our MARS net tonight I installed Beta 3.03. > When the net started I had a lot of distortion on all the signals regardless > of signal strength. It sounded like the static went up as stations spoke. > I did not know what was changed so I reloaded FW 2.78 complete (during the > net!). I then got back the good signal quality I was used to. I then > copied down the agc settings which I believe are stock. > > I then reloaded beta 3.03 (during the net!), The distortion was back. All > the AGC settings were the same except for the new AGC variable "AGC DCY" was > set to "nor". I changed this to "soft" and got most of the nice voice > quality back (not all - still some distortion). I then changed AGC HLD to > .03 like you suggest. I wll keep these settings for now. > > 73, > Steve Pituch, W2MY, AAR6CX > > -----Original Message----- > From: wayne burdick > > Hi Jack, > > I'm presently using all the defaults, plus AGC HLD = 0.3 (slow AGC hold > time in seconds) and AGC DCY = Soft (soft-decay characteristic for both > fast and slow AGC). The AGC HLD and AGC DCY settings should prove very > useful during pileups, although some ops may prefer to leave them off. > As you suggested, experimentation is in order. > > 73, > Wayne > N6KR > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
