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Good evening folks,
This week I went to my radio's? AM broadcast stations to listen to local radio. ? They are programmed in along with local FM as well as the usual simplex and repeater frequencies. ?
What I got in the way of audio was very low volume and highly distorted. This was on all three stations I checked. I changed the wire antenna to a different one with no change in behavior. ?
All the rest of the bands and modes appear to be fine.? FM broadcast, SSB and digital modes for example.?
Can anyone suggest a menu item I may have accidentally changed which would cause this?? Ive looked at all 91 or so without any obvious changes.?
73 and thanks in advance.
Dennis?
N1TEN
San Diego
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It sounds like you are trying to listen to AM using the FM
decoder.? Are you sure the rig is set to AM?
Stu, G3OCR
On 06/06/2020 05:31 am, Dennis Yard via
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Good evening folks,
This week I went to my
radio's? AM broadcast stations to listen to local radio. ?
They are programmed in along with local FM as well as the
usual simplex and repeater frequencies. ?
What I got in the way of
audio was very low volume and highly distorted. This was on
all three stations I checked.
I changed the wire antenna to
a different one with no change in behavior. ?
All the rest of the bands and
modes appear to be fine.? FM broadcast, SSB and digital modes
for example.?
Can anyone suggest a menu
item I may have accidentally changed which would cause this??
Ive looked at all 91 or so without any obvious changes.?
73 and thanks in advance.
Dennis?
N1TEN
San Diego
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Yes, definitely on AM.? Checked via both the radio mode button and via FLdigi rig control several times. Changing mode gives a significantly loude volume but distorted as you would expect.
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 4:33 AM, Stu Nutt <stunutt@...> wrote:
It sounds like you are trying to listen to AM using the FM
decoder.? Are you sure the rig is set to AM?
Stu, G3OCR
On 06/06/2020 05:31 am, Dennis Yard via
groups.io wrote:
Good evening folks,
This week I went to my
radio's? AM broadcast stations to listen to local radio. ?
They are programmed in along with local FM as well as the
usual simplex and repeater frequencies. ?
What I got in the way of
audio was very low volume and highly distorted. This was on
all three stations I checked.
I changed the wire antenna to
a different one with no change in behavior. ?
All the rest of the bands and
modes appear to be fine.? FM broadcast, SSB and digital modes
for example.?
Can anyone suggest a menu
item I may have accidentally changed which would cause this??
Ive looked at all 91 or so without any obvious changes.?
73 and thanks in advance.
Dennis?
N1TEN
San Diego
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Did you have the NB (noise blanker) on by any chance?
On Sat, 6 Jun. 2020, 2:01 pm Dennis Yard via , <hamandrovers= [email protected]> wrote: Good evening folks,
This week I went to my radio's? AM broadcast stations to listen to local radio. ? They are programmed in along with local FM as well as the usual simplex and repeater frequencies. ?
What I got in the way of audio was very low volume and highly distorted. This was on all three stations I checked. I changed the wire antenna to a different one with no change in behavior. ?
All the rest of the bands and modes appear to be fine.? FM broadcast, SSB and digital modes for example.?
Can anyone suggest a menu item I may have accidentally changed which would cause this?? Ive looked at all 91 or so without any obvious changes.?
73 and thanks in advance.
Dennis?
N1TEN
San Diego
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Do you have your filters set to NAR?
Leonard K. Pennock
AD7AS
Those who walk bravely through life, unafraid of loss or failure,
find that they very rarely lose or fail.
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On 6/5/20 9:31 PM, Dennis Yard via groups.io wrote: Good evening folks,
This week I went to my radio's? AM broadcast stations to listen to local radio. ? They are programmed in along with local FM as well as the usual simplex and repeater frequencies.
What I got in the way of audio was very low volume and highly distorted. This was on all three stations I checked.
I changed the wire antenna to a different one with no change in behavior.
All the rest of the bands and modes appear to be fine.? FM broadcast, SSB and digital modes for example.
Can anyone suggest a menu item I may have accidentally changed which would cause this?? Ive looked at all 91 or so without any obvious changes.
73 and thanks in advance.
Dennis
N1TEN
San Diego
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Theo,
I'll check but I think I ran thru the DSP operations to check that.? ?I'll check again.
Thank you.
Dennis
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:52 AM, Theo Marinos <marinos.theo@...> wrote: Did you have the NB (noise blanker) on by any chance? On Sat, 6 Jun. 2020, 2:01 pm Dennis Yard via , <hamandrovers= [email protected]> wrote: Good evening folks,
This week I went to my radio's? AM broadcast stations to listen to local radio. ? They are programmed in along with local FM as well as the usual simplex and repeater frequencies. ?
What I got in the way of audio was very low volume and highly distorted. This was on all three stations I checked. I changed the wire antenna to a different one with no change in behavior. ?
All the rest of the bands and modes appear to be fine.? FM broadcast, SSB and digital modes for example.?
Can anyone suggest a menu item I may have accidentally changed which would cause this?? Ive looked at all 91 or so without any obvious changes.?
73 and thanks in advance.
Dennis?
N1TEN
San Diego
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Leonard,
I don't know.? ?I haven't ever messed with radio filter settings and havent ever added any optional filters.? I do know that when I scroll to the CFIL? option it is checked and always has been as far as I know.
Suggestion on what to check?
Cheers,
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:55 AM, Leonard K. Pennock <leonardpennock@...> wrote: Do you have your filters set to NAR? Leonard K. Pennock AD7AS Those who walk bravely through life, unafraid of loss or failure, find that they very rarely lose or fail.
On 6/5/20 9:31 PM, Dennis Yard via groups.io wrote:
> Good evening folks,
>
> This week I went to my radio's? AM broadcast stations to listen to local
> radio. ? They are programmed in along with local FM as well as the usual
> simplex and repeater frequencies.
>
> What I got in the way of audio was very low volume and highly distorted.
> This was on all three stations I checked.
> I changed the wire antenna to a different one with no change in behavior.
>
> All the rest of the bands and modes appear to be fine.? FM broadcast,
> SSB and digital modes for example.
>
> Can anyone suggest a menu item I may have accidentally changed which
> would cause this?? Ive looked at all 91 or so without any obvious changes.
>
> 73 and thanks in advance.
>
> Dennis
> N1TEN
> San Diego
>
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Noise blanker was off.? ?
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:56 AM, Dennis Yard via groups.io <hamandrovers@...> wrote: Theo,
I'll check but I think I ran thru the DSP operations to check that.? ?I'll check again.
Thank you.
Dennis On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:52 AM, Theo Marinos <marinos.theo@...> wrote: Did you have the NB (noise blanker) on by any chance? On Sat, 6 Jun. 2020, 2:01 pm Dennis Yard via , <hamandrovers= [email protected]> wrote: Good evening folks,
This week I went to my radio's? AM broadcast stations to listen to local radio. ? They are programmed in along with local FM as well as the usual simplex and repeater frequencies. ?
What I got in the way of audio was very low volume and highly distorted. This was on all three stations I checked. I changed the wire antenna to a different one with no change in behavior. ?
All the rest of the bands and modes appear to be fine.? FM broadcast, SSB and digital modes for example.?
Can anyone suggest a menu item I may have accidentally changed which would cause this?? Ive looked at all 91 or so without any obvious changes.?
73 and thanks in advance.
Dennis?
N1TEN
San Diego
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Silly question, are you listening to FM stations on AM? ? ? --------------- Regards, ? Tony VA7TF ?
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From: Dennis Yard via groups.ioSent: June 6, 2020 8:29 AM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [FT-857] AM Broadcast Stations Distorted ? Noise blanker was off.? ? ? On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:56 AM, Dennis Yard via groups.io <hamandrovers@...> wrote: Theo, I'll check but I think I ran thru the DSP operations to check that.? ?I'll check again. ? ? On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:52 AM, Theo Marinos <marinos.theo@...> wrote: Did you have the NB (noise blanker) on by any chance? ? On Sat, 6 Jun. 2020, 2:01 pm Dennis Yard via , <hamandrovers=[email protected]> wrote: This week I went to my radio's? AM broadcast stations to listen to local radio. ? They are programmed in along with local FM as well as the usual simplex and repeater frequencies. ? What I got in the way of audio was very low volume and highly distorted. This was on all three stations I checked. I changed the wire antenna to a different one with no change in behavior. ? All the rest of the bands and modes appear to be fine.? FM broadcast, SSB and digital modes for example.? Can anyone suggest a menu item I may have accidentally changed which would cause this?? Ive looked at all 91 or so without any obvious changes.? 73 and thanks in advance.
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What frequencies are programmed into the radio, or what are the frequencies in MHZ are you trying to listen to? ? ? --------------- Regards, ? Tony ?
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From: Dennis Yard via groups.ioSent: June 6, 2020 8:29 AM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [FT-857] AM Broadcast Stations Distorted ? Noise blanker was off.? ? ? On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:56 AM, Dennis Yard via groups.io <hamandrovers@...> wrote: Theo, I'll check but I think I ran thru the DSP operations to check that.? ?I'll check again. ? ? On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:52 AM, Theo Marinos <marinos.theo@...> wrote: Did you have the NB (noise blanker) on by any chance? ? On Sat, 6 Jun. 2020, 2:01 pm Dennis Yard via , <hamandrovers=[email protected]> wrote: This week I went to my radio's? AM broadcast stations to listen to local radio. ? They are programmed in along with local FM as well as the usual simplex and repeater frequencies. ? What I got in the way of audio was very low volume and highly distorted. This was on all three stations I checked. I changed the wire antenna to a different one with no change in behavior. ? All the rest of the bands and modes appear to be fine.? FM broadcast, SSB and digital modes for example.? Can anyone suggest a menu item I may have accidentally changed which would cause this?? Ive looked at all 91 or so without any obvious changes.? 73 and thanks in advance.
-- +++++++++++++++ Tony VA7TF? VE7ACF
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Not a silly question, but not AM for sure.? ?1070 KNX in LA for example.
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 9:23 AM, Tony VA7TF, VE7ACF <20junk20@...> wrote: Silly question, are you listening to FM stations on AM? ? ? --------------- Regards, ? Tony VA7TF ? ? Noise blanker was off.? ? ? On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:56 AM, Dennis Yard via groups.io <hamandrovers@...> wrote: Theo, I'll check but I think I ran thru the DSP operations to check that.? ?I'll check again. ? ? On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:52 AM, Theo Marinos <marinos.theo@...> wrote: Did you have the NB (noise blanker) on by any chance? ? On Sat, 6 Jun. 2020, 2:01 pm Dennis Yard via , <hamandrovers=[email protected]> wrote: This week I went to my radio's? AM broadcast stations to listen to local radio. ? They are programmed in along with local FM as well as the usual simplex and repeater frequencies. ? What I got in the way of audio was very low volume and highly distorted. This was on all three stations I checked. I changed the wire antenna to a different one with no change in behavior. ? All the rest of the bands and modes appear to be fine.? FM broadcast, SSB and digital modes for example.? Can anyone suggest a menu item I may have accidentally changed which would cause this?? Ive looked at all 91 or so without any obvious changes.? 73 and thanks in advance.
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Tony
VA7TF? VE7ACF
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1070 kHz is on the AM band Los Angeles. ? Is it a typo or you are definitely saying 1070 is not on AM? ? Try listening to WWV on 5, 10, 15 or 20 MHZ on SSB and AM. Is the AM signal clean? If so, then possibly something the LF portion up to 1.8 MHZ in the radio may be bad. ? ? --------------- Regards, ? Tony ?
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From: Dennis Yard via groups.ioSent: June 6, 2020 9:25 AM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [FT-857] AM Broadcast Stations Distorted ? Not a silly question, but not AM for sure.? ?1070 KNX in LA for example. On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 9:23 AM, Tony VA7TF, VE7ACF Silly question, are you listening to FM stations on AM? ? ? --------------- Regards, ? Tony VA7TF ? ? Noise blanker was off.? ? ? On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:56 AM, Dennis Yard via groups.io <hamandrovers@...> wrote: Theo, I'll check but I think I ran thru the DSP operations to check that.? ?I'll check again. ? ? On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:52 AM, Theo Marinos <marinos.theo@...> wrote: Did you have the NB (noise blanker) on by any chance? ? On Sat, 6 Jun. 2020, 2:01 pm Dennis Yard via , <hamandrovers=[email protected]> wrote: This week I went to my radio's? AM broadcast stations to listen to local radio. ? They are programmed in along with local FM as well as the usual simplex and repeater frequencies. ? What I got in the way of audio was very low volume and highly distorted. This was on all three stations I checked. I changed the wire antenna to a different one with no change in behavior. ? All the rest of the bands and modes appear to be fine.? FM broadcast, SSB and digital modes for example.? Can anyone suggest a menu item I may have accidentally changed which would cause this?? Ive looked at all 91 or so without any obvious changes.? 73 and thanks in advance.
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Tony
VA7TF? VE7ACF
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I'm saying that the 1070 AM staion is low and distorted as are three others local to? San Diego.
I didn't think of non-broadcast AM.? I'll try it.
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 9:40 AM, Tony VA7TF, VE7ACF <20junk20@...> wrote: 1070 kHz is on the AM band Los Angeles. ? Is it a typo or you are definitely saying 1070 is not on AM? ? Try listening to WWV on 5, 10, 15 or 20 MHZ on SSB and AM. Is the AM signal clean? If so, then possibly something the LF portion up to 1.8 MHZ in the radio may be bad. ? ? --------------- Regards, ? Tony ? ? Not a silly question, but not AM for sure.? ?1070 KNX in LA for example. On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 9:23 AM, Tony VA7TF, VE7ACF Silly question, are you listening to FM stations on AM? ? ? --------------- Regards, ? Tony VA7TF ? ? Noise blanker was off.? ? ? On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:56 AM, Dennis Yard via groups.io <hamandrovers@...> wrote: Theo, I'll check but I think I ran thru the DSP operations to check that.? ?I'll check again. ? ? On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:52 AM, Theo Marinos <marinos.theo@...> wrote: Did you have the NB (noise blanker) on by any chance? ? On Sat, 6 Jun. 2020, 2:01 pm Dennis Yard via , <hamandrovers=[email protected]> wrote: This week I went to my radio's? AM broadcast stations to listen to local radio. ? They are programmed in along with local FM as well as the usual simplex and repeater frequencies. ? What I got in the way of audio was very low volume and highly distorted. This was on all three stations I checked. I changed the wire antenna to a different one with no change in behavior. ? All the rest of the bands and modes appear to be fine.? FM broadcast, SSB and digital modes for example.? Can anyone suggest a menu item I may have accidentally changed which would cause this?? Ive looked at all 91 or so without any obvious changes.? 73 and thanks in advance.
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Tony
VA7TF? VE7ACF
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690 Khz, 760 khz and 1070 khz
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 9:25 AM, Tony VA7TF, VE7ACF <20junk20@...> wrote: What frequencies are programmed into the radio, or what are the frequencies in MHZ are you trying to listen to? ? ? --------------- Regards, ? Tony ? ? Noise blanker was off.? ? ? On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:56 AM, Dennis Yard via groups.io <hamandrovers@...> wrote: Theo, I'll check but I think I ran thru the DSP operations to check that.? ?I'll check again. ? ? On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:52 AM, Theo Marinos <marinos.theo@...> wrote: Did you have the NB (noise blanker) on by any chance? ? On Sat, 6 Jun. 2020, 2:01 pm Dennis Yard via , <hamandrovers=[email protected]> wrote: This week I went to my radio's? AM broadcast stations to listen to local radio. ? They are programmed in along with local FM as well as the usual simplex and repeater frequencies. ? What I got in the way of audio was very low volume and highly distorted. This was on all three stations I checked. I changed the wire antenna to a different one with no change in behavior. ? All the rest of the bands and modes appear to be fine.? FM broadcast, SSB and digital modes for example.? Can anyone suggest a menu item I may have accidentally changed which would cause this?? Ive looked at all 91 or so without any obvious changes.? 73 and thanks in advance.
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VA7TF? VE7ACF
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Dennis,
Check the receive bandwidth - AM broadcasts are often "wider" than SSB settings.? If I listen to AM I jack the low limit to 200 hz, and the high limit to 5khz.
73,
Mike N5MJ
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Did you mean... not FM for sure? Bob wa7dxz
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-------- Original message -------- From: "Dennis Yard via groups.io" <hamandrovers@...> Date: 6/6/20 9:25 AM (GMT-07:00) Subject: Re: [FT-857] AM Broadcast Stations Distorted
Not a silly question, but not AM for sure.? ?1070 KNX in LA for example.
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 9:23 AM, Tony VA7TF, VE7ACF <20junk20@...> wrote: Silly question, are you listening to FM stations on AM? ? ? --------------- Regards, ? Tony VA7TF ? ? Noise blanker was off.? ? ? On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:56 AM, Dennis Yard via groups.io <hamandrovers@...> wrote: Theo, I'll check but I think I ran thru the DSP operations to check that.? ?I'll check again. ? ? On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:52 AM, Theo Marinos <marinos.theo@...> wrote: Did you have the NB (noise blanker) on by any chance? ? On Sat, 6 Jun. 2020, 2:01 pm Dennis Yard via , <hamandrovers=[email protected]> wrote: This week I went to my radio's? AM broadcast stations to listen to local radio. ? They are programmed in along with local FM as well as the usual simplex and repeater frequencies. ? What I got in the way of audio was very low volume and highly distorted. This was on all three stations I checked. I changed the wire antenna to a different one with no change in behavior. ? All the rest of the bands and modes appear to be fine.? FM broadcast, SSB and digital modes for example.? Can anyone suggest a menu item I may have accidentally changed which would cause this?? Ive looked at all 91 or so without any obvious changes.? 73 and thanks in advance.
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Mike, Menu item # please so I am on the same page. ?
Dennis N1TEN
On Saturday, June 6, 2020, 11:20:07 AM PDT, Mike Mello <afs63c@...> wrote:
Dennis,
Check the receive bandwidth - AM broadcasts are often "wider" than SSB settings.? If I listen to AM I jack the low limit to 200 hz, and the high limit to 5khz.
73,
Mike N5MJ
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You are correct I did a bad typo. ? Not FM for sure.? Sorry.
I am seeing AM on the radio display.
Dennis N1TEN
On Saturday, June 6, 2020, 11:20:45 AM PDT, Bob L via groups.io <wa7dxz@...> wrote:
Did you mean... not FM for sure? Bob wa7dxz
Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: "Dennis Yard via groups.io" <hamandrovers@...> Date: 6/6/20 9:25 AM (GMT-07:00) Subject: Re: [FT-857] AM Broadcast Stations Distorted
Not a silly question, but not AM for sure.? ?1070 KNX in LA for example.
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 9:23 AM, Tony VA7TF, VE7ACF <20junk20@...> wrote: Silly question, are you listening to FM stations on AM? ? ? --------------- Regards, ? Tony VA7TF ? ? Noise blanker was off.? ? ? On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:56 AM, Dennis Yard via groups.io <hamandrovers@...> wrote: Theo, I'll check but I think I ran thru the DSP operations to check that.? ?I'll check again. ? ? On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 5:52 AM, Theo Marinos <marinos.theo@...> wrote: Did you have the NB (noise blanker) on by any chance? ? On Sat, 6 Jun. 2020, 2:01 pm Dennis Yard via , <hamandrovers=[email protected]> wrote: This week I went to my radio's? AM broadcast stations to listen to local radio. ? They are programmed in along with local FM as well as the usual simplex and repeater frequencies. ? What I got in the way of audio was very low volume and highly distorted. This was on all three stations I checked. I changed the wire antenna to a different one with no change in behavior. ? All the rest of the bands and modes appear to be fine.? FM broadcast, SSB and digital modes for example.? Can anyone suggest a menu item I may have accidentally changed which would cause this?? Ive looked at all 91 or so without any obvious changes.? 73 and thanks in advance.
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Good catch! ? It was off.
That improved signal even more than messing with RF Gain knob.
Thanks to all for the teaching moment.
Dennis?
N1TEN
On Saturday, June 6, 2020, 12:54:44 PM PDT, N8VUL <n8vul@...> wrote:
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Tony VA7TF, VE7ACF
Mike Mello