X9000 question need help quickly as possible please

[mancow]

Hey.... I am trying to get an X9000 low band set up for a guy and need to know about the extender. I need to know exactly what it does and how to check if the radio is set up for it.

Thanks for any replies, I'm kind of in a tme crunch here.


mancow

[FMROB]

Deleted....I stand corrected, Sorry for the wrong info..They are correct, It is a filtering option.

[mancow]

OK, I was just in a big hurry and didn't want to dig throught that X9000 page to find out. Thanks for the info.

[George]

But this is the problem. You asked a question, didn't have the time to check out the answer yourself, and guess what? The answer you received is WRONG!

The extender in a low band X9000 is a noise blanker function that gets rid of pulse type noise adn interference by using a seperate receive channel and hopefully the noise is present where the seperate channel is listening, inverts it and presents it to the desired channel out of phase and as a result, cancels it. At least, that's how it works on a Micor, both VHF and low band.

It is not an amplifier, it's a noise blanker.

- G

[mancow]

Thanks George. I recall reading about it in the past but couldn't recall if it was an amplifier or basically like the noise blanker in my IC-706.

I enabled it. I had it on in the past. I suppose if it isn't there it will be okay to enable it anyway. I had it enabled in the past and it gave no error. I neve did notice any pulse type noise from vehicle egnitions so maybe it's there.

mancow

[wa2zdy]

Yep, that's right. Motorola called their noise blanker an extender. GE refers to their vehicular repeater (like the PAC-RT or VRS) as an extender. Have to be careful with the confusion.