Would love to hear opinions on what rig you feel has the best noise
blanker out there.



My experience tells me you can not assign a good or bad grade to
various manufacturers. I have had various Yaesu, Kenwood, Icom, and
TenTec radios over the past years. Some of these products had excellent
noise blankers, some had terrible noise blankers.

The very best I have seen were my old Yaesu FT301 and my new Icom
746Pro II, yet the worst I have seen were also in Yaesu radios... FT
757 for example. Also my old TenTec 555 noise blanker was nearly
useless.

Additionally, you may find various web sites that tell how to tune or
improve the noise blanker in various models. Apparently many models may
come off the production line with good noise blankers that just aren't
effective due to poor tuning and setup. I believe the Yaesu FT817 was
one of these.


Ed K7AAT