I have no option to turn off AGC with the FT-736R. I had been running on the Medium setting (my default) and have switched to Slow now. I'm not sure to say because it's rather subjective just watching, but I think it has slightly improved capture especially at AOS and LOS as well as when I have de-sensing due to my other VHF stations so rudely beaconing their APRS and WL2K info without regard to the science going on! ;-)
Jerry N0JY
On 8/17/2011 6:24 PM, Alan Cresswell wrote:
Hi Mark, Phil,
That's interesting. I have collected all my passes on the TS2000 with the AGC on and set to the longest setting. This is mainly because I often record the signal level every 0.5 seconds during a pass which requires the AGC to be on and the longest setting irons out any short fades. I will turn the AGC off and look at the statistics over a few passes but given that with the AGC on I get almost all the available frames I don't expect to see much difference. It will be interesting to see.
73 Alan ZL2BX
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