Sounds like an RFI problem to me Dan. Do you have an rf choke at your antenna feedpoint? Does the station have a good single point ground? How close is the antenna to the radio?
If it's not rfi, the attached might help. 73 Wayne K4ELO On Wed, Feb 20, 2013, at 11:05 PM, Dan Baker wrote: > Hello all, > I just recently bought a 3000 refurb unit. I am having trouble getting it > to sound clean. > I tried my Yaesu hand mic, a Electro Voice RE20, and my Headset. All with > the same result. The reports I get from my friends are a little > distortion on the peaks of my signal. That it just does not sound right. > My > peaks can be at -25dbm and it is still present. > I set this up by setting the Mic gain at 35% adjusting the Mixer setting > until it was about -15db on the mic meter reading. Then > adjusting the EQ level. I have it running around -10 to -15 dbm on my > peaks. When I listen to the audio using the monitor in PSDR it sounds > clean. > I can run 20 watts out of the radio or 700 watts out of my amp and it > does > not change. > Anyone have any suggestions? > > Best Regards, Dan KM6CQ > > > -- > KM6CQ > Dan Baker > www.km6cq.com > @danielbaker > QSL via LoTW, eQSL, or Direct. > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flexradio.com/ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
