Thanks guys for all the comments.
Yes, the one ht I normally use on the bench may be a little hot on PL (er I
mean CG hihi) Dev and voice dev, but not way out of bounds. Kind of one of
the reasons I use that one, is it's on the edge as a user radio might be.
The point is, it's never done that with any other GE M2 on the bench before.
Thus my questioning of the hardware under test.
As for quality and standardization of radios, I agree. They are all over the
place audio wise. Sure I could crack open this particular HT and turn it
down to 200 Hz pl deviation and 4 KHz peak voice dev. I know if I put the
repeater up on the mtn site today, some of my users will talk it off too. It
would be hard to bench calibrate all the users radios out there. Again, I
just think there is something in the hardware I'm missing.
I did grab two other ht's as stated earlier and they created the same
problem. One HT was a moto saber btw, so hopefully they did their homework
correctly on PL injection into the transmitter audio chain. I dont remember
the exact particulars on the Saber, but I remember it does have a lower PL
dev and much lower audio dev. Still shuts the PL decoder down.
I looked at the audio levels going into the pl deck. Didn't look out of
whack.
I'll try changing the PL tone from 127.3 to something lower that I normally
use. That was a good suggestion and easy to try. Maybe I have one of those
voices for 127.3.
Someone mentioned supply voltages. The 12 VDC supply is the bench supply
right now. I adjusted the 10 VDC a long time back when first starting with
this 'new' repeater station. But, will recheck the 10 VDC, just in case.
Well its getting late and Santa is near (for the kids). Thanks again guys,
you given me some things to think about.
best holiday wishes,
Ralph W4XE
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