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SmartSDR v3.8.23 and the SmartSDR v3.8.23 Release Notes
SmartSDR v2.12.1 and the SmartSDR v2.12.1 Release Notes

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Power Genius XL Utility v3.8.9 and the Power Genius XL Release Notes v3.8.9
Tuner Genius XL Utility v1.2.11 and the Tuner Genius XL Release Notes v1.2.11
Antenna Genius Utility v4.1.8

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Geoff_W8GNM · Retired VP Engineering, Harris Corp. · ✭✭

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• Re: 6600M bandwidth center/width controls

  Geoff_W8GNM

  March 2018
  In SSB mode. I haven't tested it in CW mode yet. When I said outer I meant the one sticking further out from the front panel. You are right it is the inner, concentric, knob that changes the mode bet…
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• Re: 6600M bandwidth center/width controls

  Geoff_W8GNM

  March 2018
  Rich, sometimes it is more convenient to set a receive bandwidth for SSB and then be able to slide this bandwidth window slightly up or down in frequency to eliminate QRM from above or below this fre…
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• Re: Why does the Flex 6600 need band preselectors?

  Geoff_W8GNM

  August 2018
  Those analog preselector filters are there to protect the A/D converters from strong out of band signals, but the insertion loss of the 7th order filters is about 8dB which degrades the noise figure …
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• Re: Why I chose Power Genius XL & First Impressions

  Geoff_W8GNM

  August 2018
  The next step will be to put adaptive pre-correction around the FlexRadio and amplifier combination to drive the IMD levels below 50dB. This is a feature that the Flex engineers should move up in pri…
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• Re: Why I chose Power Genius XL & First Impressions

  Geoff_W8GNM

  August 2018
  50db is 10dB less adjacent channel QRM than 40dB and well worth striving for. It really doesn't matter if the exciter/transceiver has very low IMD distortion in its output stage. The IMD will be gene…
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