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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Andrew P. <andrewemt@hotmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> "aprssig@tapr.org " <aprssig@tapr.org> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday, February 8, 2013 10:05 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [aprssig] Receiver overload issues with Kenwood TH-D72<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>Greetings, all.<BR><BR>I was conducting some software tests that required passing data between two stations to ensure the data would be transmitted and received correctly. So, I had my transmitting station (Alinco DR-135T mobile and
Byonics TinyTrak 4) and receiving station (Kenwood TH-D72 HT) sitting on the bench, both tuned to the same idle simplex frequency (I picked a quiet frequency not used for anything in my area), with the Kenwood HT about 1 meter from the Alinco's antenna. When I transmitted packets from the Alinco to the Kenwood, I could see the transmit indicator on both the TinyTrak and the DR-135T, but the TH-D72 would only occasionally squawk and acknowledge receipt of the packet (about 15% success rate). Transmitting in the reverse direction had an even lower success rate (zero packet detections at the receiver).<BR><BR>Could it be I was overloading the radios' front ends by being too close to the other radio's antenna? I made sure to use the factory "rubber duck" antenna on the Kenwood to minimize gain, and even turned the HT on its side to ruin polarization, but that didn't help.<BR><BR>Any suggestions (other than getting help because my arms aren't long enough to
reach both rigs further apart)? I'm considering replacing the Alinco's antenna with a dummy load and depending on leakage to conduct the test, but I'm not sure if that will help.<BR><BR>Andrew Pavlin, KA2DDO<BR>Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>aprssig mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" ymailto="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</A><BR>http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig<BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>