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Old October 5th 08, 11:45 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.equipment
Michael Black[_2_] Michael Black[_2_] is offline
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Default Kenwood TS-140S All mode ssquelch modification

On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Ed Cregger wrote:


"T0M" wrote in message
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I know it's possible to do a modifiction to have the squelch working in
all modes with a Kenwood TS-14S.
I would like to know if some of you have already made this mod and if it
really works.

Thank you in advance,

T0M


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Even though I've owned and operated my share of Kenwood rigs, and never
heard of the problem that you describe, it surprises me that the squelch is
not intended to work in any particular mode. Which mode is your squelch
inoperative?

It's odd. There were some SSB only VHF rigs in the seventies, and
they generally did include squelch (though I have no idea how
well they worked or if people actually used it).

Then the multi-mode rigs came along, and at least some of those
rigs had squelch that only worked on FM. I'd guess it reflected
operating habits, you want the FM rig left on in case someone
hits the channel, but for SSB you generally aren't just waiting,
you are actively tuning. Plus, you can get a feel for where
to set the squelch for local FM, but how much would you miss
if you had the squelch turned too high? By the time you get
the rig squelched on SSB, you likely are missing the weak
signals.

I imagine that's the case, and a search reveals this is an
HF rig, not a VHF rig as I imagined, and the squelch only
works on FM.

That makes sense, I can't imagine people wanting squelch much
on HF SSB.

The same search turns up at least one mod that may or may
not be useful. Just the rig's number and squelch into
the search engine.

Michael VE2BVW