Thanks guys. I have used W1AEX's method with great success, but it didn't mention to disable the leveler. I asked Rob and he commented that originally the leveler was thought of as the final stage, so it probably would not effect the preceding stages.
On Tuesday, April 30, 2013, Brian Lloyd wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Bob Kay <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, > 'cvml', '[email protected]');> > > wrote: > >> You suggested to turn off the Leveler during the adjustments. Isn't the >> Leveler functioning as an overall output volume control? And since we >> meter >> each stage directly, does the Leveler have any influence on the preceding >> stages? >> > > The leveler is a hard-limiter. You can think of it as a fast, deep > compressor. It doesn't do anything until you hit the threshold and then it > reduces the gain by as much as the signal increases, keeping the signal > level. The problem with leaving it on while making adjustments is that you > can't see any overshoot on the output and you might be tempted to turn > things up a bit too far. Better to leave it off until nearly last so you > can see its effect and its effect only on the output level. > > -- > Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN/J79BPL > 706 Flightline Drive > Spring Branch, TX 78070 > [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');> > +1.916.877.5067 (USA) > -- *Best 73 de WA2SQQ Elmwood Park, NJ "The only dumb questions are those we don't ask"* _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software innovation and other technical SDR topics.
