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Lack of a functioning noise blanker is killing me!

Michael - N5TGL
Michael - N5TGL Member ✭✭
edited June 2019 in SmartSDR for Windows
Here in southwest Texas, it's been really dry. Normally we have enough rain to keep the powerline noise at bay, but now it's so dry the noise is back with a vengeance. My Flex-5000 NB worked great to knock this stuff down. The NB on the 6700 works...if you give it about 30-40 seconds, which is extremely frustrating. I can hit the NB, and after about 30 or so seconds, it finally starts to work. However, if I make ANY transmissions, it disengages and I have to wait another 30 or so seconds after unkeying for it to engage again. This means I end up calling CQ and only the strongest make it through the noise. I had several answers to my call today, but couldn't make the contact because the NB took forever to start working again. I can't imagine I'm the only one with noise problems. I'm hoping this is not yet another post 1.0 release fix. It's no fun picking out a weak one, and then after answering the call the NB doesn't work and you can't hear them come back to you.

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  • Tim - W4TME
    Tim - W4TME Administrator, FlexRadio Employee admin
    edited March 2017
    Michael, The NR, NB and ANF have not been fully optimized yet. The defect of the NB taking a long time to converge is scheduled to be addressed
  • W5XZ - dan
    W5XZ - dan Member ✭✭
    edited June 2019
    FWIW, i have been playing with nb settings from 0 all the way up to 90...have nuisance-grade s-5 line noise to west on 160m..sometimes, it seems to work... 73, W5XZ
  • W5XZ - dan
    W5XZ - dan Member ✭✭
    edited June 2019
    with 'fast' agc, and AGC-t set considerably lower than default...
  • Michael - N5TGL
    Michael - N5TGL Member ✭✭
    edited December 2016
    Ok Dan, i'm giving that a shot. The 5K NB worked great, here's to hoping the 6K series will beat it!
  • W3DCB
    W3DCB Member
    edited July 2017
    Patience, my friends...Its coming...
  • NM1W
    NM1W Member ✭✭
    edited July 2017
    +1 Somewhere I've got a new noise source wiping out the high bands.. Time to break out the transistor am radio..
  • Michael - N5TGL
    Michael - N5TGL Member ✭✭
    edited December 2016
    Fast agc and AGC-t set lower helps a lot. Looking forward to the real fix tho!

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