On 5/12/2019 4:17 PM, Rick Bates (WA6NHC) wrote:
The use of legal limit or not isn’t the issue; as it may be needed to make the DESIRED contact, typically often required on the lower bands. Your ability to hear such a strong signal has many factors, including band conditions and proximity.
Right. As to decoding weak stations around much, much stronger ones -- I face that often on 160M and 6M, which is 99.9% of my FT8 activity. My solution is to set the input gain to the decoder so that the strongest signals don't cause the A/D to clip, but raise the level of the weaker stations so they are above the bottom of the A/D. The indicated input level is then about 70 dB. Clipping is indicated by the green vertical bar turning red. And I run with slow AGC.
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