On Saturday 30 September 2006 00:04, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > But also realize that in addition to preventing physical damage to the > receiver, you also need to deal with "desense" (as we old repeater > builders call it) that results when the RX front end is subjected to a > strong input. It takes a finite amount of time for the front end > operating conditions to return to normal after being exposed to a big > signal, so that may impact your turn-around time.
If the Rx boards support it you could turn off the LO during transmition, that can improve recovery time. (Although this is all second hand knowledge at VHF :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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