Tom,
It's probably more useful to look at your ALC reading and adjust your mic
gain accordingly. Even though you and Steve may be using identical mics,
your voice characteristics and the volume with which you speak into the mic
may require that your mic gain be set differently. Don't get me wrong; it
doesn't hurt to use the settings as a starting point, but they don't
represent the final word.
I don't believe that the Carrier adjustment has any meaning in SSB since
your carrier is suppressed anyway in that mode. As far as I know, that
adjustment is primarily intended for AM, where you want to run your carrier
level at about 50. If you run it higher than that, you'll run out of head
room, which will ultimately result in lower audio levels. Run it lower, and
you'll have too little carrier with respect to your audio, which will cause
you to sound like you're running double sideband, carrier suppressed. In
other words, people will hear distortion if they're listening in AM mode.
A long press of the meter switch redirects the driver output of your
transceiver from the finals to one of the RCA jacks on the back of the
radio. This mode is intended for use with a transverter where you need a
low power signal (5 watts or less) for the transverter input. Of course, in
this mode, your power output from the finals is 0, hence the reading on your
power meter.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 17:28
Subject: some question on TS590 carrier settings and meter function switch
> Hi, everyone.
>
> Today, I was late for the cross-country blind ops net, but did have a nice
> chat afterwords on 14.258 with Steve (KW3A) and Bob (WA0KZB). Hope I got
> your call right, Bob. (grin)
>
> Anyway, Steve indicated that I sounded a bit light, so I did some
> re-adjusting of carrier and mic gain settings so that now, for SSB, my
> carrier setting is 50, and my mic gain setting is 68. These are close to,
> if not identical to, the settings Steve uses for his Heil mic, and since I
> too have a Heil GM5 mic, I thought I'd replicate those settings.
>
> When I did some testing, my ALC meter said "over" several times, but when
> I
> backed off from the mic a bit, the readings ran between 12 and 14.
>
> So, I think I'm clost to being in the ball park here.
>
> Do these settings sound reasonable?
>
> My next questions are these: 1. can you vary the carrier settings by
> mode?; and 2. What's a reasonable carrier setting for CW mode? And, ?
>
> Finally, I made one other interesting discovery here: If I press the
> meter
> function button longer than usual, I seem to go into a mode where the
> carrier function does not read out any longer. In other words, I get "a0"
> no matter what I do. Does anyone know what this extra function of the
> meter
> function button is?
>
> I thought I'd ask these questions here, rather than posting them to the
> TS590 list, where folks might not totally understand what we have to go
> through to make things work correctly sometimes.
>
> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>
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