Don,

Synchronous detection is one of those features that sneaks up on you
because it doesn't always seem to do much of anything.  Suddenly you notice
that a station that should be distorted just isn't.  I have noticed,
though, that the AGC doesn't work as smoothly when synchronous detection is
on, probably because the local oscillator keeps it from noticing the
changing strength of the carrier while the audio itself continues to fade
up and down.  I don't have any good sound technical data to support that
theory; it's just my amateur attempt to explain what I'm hearing.

Steve

On Monday 9/27/2004 18:24 Don Bishop wrote:

>Steve,
>
>Thanks for all the clarification.  I've heard people talking about the g
>radio but when I did a google search I couldn't find the actual specs on
>the radio.
>Sounds like it may not really be what I'm looking for as I do have the 2010.
>
>I'll have to play more with the synchronous detection on the 2010.  We
>just moved out of the SF bay area and into the boondocs, so I'm getting
>reintroduced to selective fading on the am band again.  <smile>
>
>Thanks for reminding me of the synchronous feature.
>
>Don W6SMB