I don't own a ts480, but i have noticed that the TS-2000 exhibits much the
same thing as you mentioned with signals sounding about 2 S units louder
then what the meter is indicating.
The ts570 seems to have a very accurate meter and will only give an S0 if
the station truely is an S0.
I find many of my DX contacts are S0 according to the TS2000, and when i
compare signal reports with another ham very close to me using a similar
antenna and a ts570, he usually shows around S2 to s4 on those same
stations.

My opinion on this one is that kenwood has decided to calibrate their newer
radios a little lean for some reason.
I think the standard is to calibrate for 100MV as an S9 signal
strength...but they may be calibrating a little bit higher on that one.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 2:58 AM
Subject: rst


> I wonder if anybody else is finding that the signal reports on the
> ts480 sound very scotch?  Maybe about two s units down from what your
> ear tells you?
> The other thing is that if you switch from ssb to cw, the reported
> strength drops by two s units.  Your ear tells a different
> story.  I'd like to know if that is what other ts480 users find.
>
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