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Lack of a functioning noise blanker is killing me!
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Michael - N5TGL
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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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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 addressed0
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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, W5XZ0
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with 'fast' agc, and AGC-t set considerably lower than default...1
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Ok Dan, i'm giving that a shot. The 5K NB worked great, here's to hoping the 6K series will beat it!0
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Patience, my friends...Its coming...0
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+1 Somewhere I've got a new noise source wiping out the high bands.. Time to break out the transistor am radio..0
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Fast agc and AGC-t set lower helps a lot. Looking forward to the real fix tho!1
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