Well... to sell radios to Amateurs most mfgrs promise the moon and try to build it into the radio. Most hams use radios in locations where the excessive gain is desired (ie not on a mountain top). So a user outside most metro - busy areas really loves the red hot receiver.
In a mountain top location... some of the old thick and numb but well filtered radios like the Micor or GE Master Pro Receivers would be better suited. Hey you GE guys... is the Mater II series as well filtered as the earlier Master Pro stuff? Your remote base Kenwood radio gain problem sounds just like the same problem I had with my Yaesu Moutain Top Radio. They are after all made for typical Amateur "Ham" Radio service. cheers, skipp > I did; it was. I was able to tame the problem somewhat by reducing > the 1st IF gain somewhat, resulting in significantly mitigating the > adjacent channel squelch problem while losing maybe a dB or two at > most in sensitivity. IMO, a combination of too much IF gain & > defective or not enough 1st IF filtering. > > > Also had problems with the IF filtering, causing the squelch to > > > close on reasonably strong signals when a strong signal 15 kHz > > > away was present. > > I'm not sure if I'd blame the IF section for the trouble unless > > I did a lot of testing. >
