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- TNC2.10
- On the other hand, if
- you are taking your output from a point close to the discriminator output
- (which is the preferred method), then you will be bypassing the deemphasis
- circuit. In this case, the MF10 filter has the opposite effect to what would
- be desired. Incoming mark and space tones which differ by 6 dB (due to
- preemphasis) will end up being 12 dB apart after passing through the filter.
- The XR-2211 demodulator chip will not like this at all, and will probably
- refuse to decode the signal.
-
- Having convinced myself that the filter should be unnecessary, the next step
- was to remove it from my TNC (one of the original TAPR TNC2 boards). This is
- very easy to do; you simply unplug the MF10 (it's a 20 pin device) and run a
- jumper from pin 3 to pin 17 of its socket. On-the-air testing confirmed that
- copy of most signals was improved by bypassing the filter. There were some
- exceptions of course, but the net result was positive and my MF10 has remained
- on the shelf. I plan to do some further tests to try and determine how many
- of the signals I hear are preemphasized and by how much, and how this affects
- the readability of the signal.
-
- CONTINUED IN FILE TNC2.3
-