Hi.

It wouldn't surprise me if they are using very similar sampling techniques 
on the TS2000 and the '480.

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 09:50 AM 6/20/2006 -0600, you wrote:
>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
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>
> > 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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