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I have 2 of these that have TX audio much lower than desired. The softpot settings in RSS are a little confusing to me, anyone willing to provide some
insight on how to adjust up tx audio level/deviation? Primary use is on HAM/MURS/MARINE......

Mahalo!

If you don’t have the knowledge or the required test equipment / service monitor to tune a radio, I highly recommend that you don’t start blindly adjusting softpot values in the tuning of your radio.. That’s a good way to make it sound and perform horribly very fast. Bring it to someone who has the equipment or a radio service center, and have a full alignment performed.


-Marc

What Marc said.

Also check to make sure you don't have the channels set to narrow (2.5KHz) deviation, or you'll experience low TX audio.

tvsjr wrote:What Marc said.

Also check to make sure you don't have the channels set to narrow (2.5KHz) deviation, or you'll experience low TX audio.

The channel options are F2, where you can view these settings in RSS.

12.5 K channels are set to 2.5K deviation, 20/25K channels are 5K deviation by default.

Without a service monitor, you can NOT properly adjust the deviation, blindly tweaking the settings will produce IMD products and over deviation.
Most repeaters will clip you if your deviation is higher that +/- 5kHz.

Proper deviation setting will never produce more than +/- 4.4kHz deviation. This level prevents loud people from excceeding the modulation acceptance bandwidth, keeping within the FCC rules.