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Use it in conjunction with the RF Gain, as outlined in Trick #8, below. Play around with the ATT on a hot band, and see where you like it. Attenuating a hot band will help remove some noise, and keep signals at a comfortable level. I add amplification on higher bands to pull out a weak signal, or weaker overall signals.ДЄttenuation is also useful, via the white ATT button. On the FTDX 3000, I find I adjust these per how they make my waterfall look, so that signals appear just comfortably viewable, there. Adding amplification can pull out weaker signals, but does add a bit of noise.

To keep it simple, if you are in IPO, your Amp is off. If signals are coming in strong, especially on lower bands, using IPO will mean a cleaner signal. Using the Amp (and ATT button) are not tricks, but common good radio practice to learn, and they apply to almost any radio.

Eq for ham radio how to#

I'm going to give you some settings to help get you going.Д«efore I go there, as with other Yaesu radios, you should learn how to use the IPO, Amp1, and Amp2 settings under the white IPO button. That said, many of the settings are set once and forget, unless you want to tweak and play around. The FTDX 3000 is menu-intensive, as mentioned.

The FTDX 3000 has enough attenuation and tricks that the MTU doesn't do as much as it would for, say, and FT-950 or FT-2000. The answer - kinda sorta - but not enough to spend $375 on it used, and certainly not enough to spend $700+ for a new one. I thought it might help me in my large city noise environment.

Eq for ham radio series#

To keep it short - 98% of hams won't benefit from the MTU units, unless they have an older Yaesu series radio that it works with, or if they live near overpowering broadcast towers or large ham stations. That external box is worth a whole nother review, which will be upcoming. Oddly, I've learned since getting and tweaking with the FTDX 3000, that I rarely need/use the Noise Reduction at all!Д®nough background - let's talk about how to improve signals with the FTDX 3000.ДЇirst off, I should mention that I purchased the 3000 along with a Yaesu MTU-80/40 external RF Tuning Unit. The Icom 7300 has Noise Reduction, but I didn't find it particularly impressive. I have a review of the FT-891, if you're interested, but it's long gone from my shack. I had also owned a Yaesu FT-891, which had impressive Noise Reduction. I was wowed specifically by the noise reduction capabilities of his 3000. I purchased an FTDX 3000 because a ham friend, HL5ZEE, already had one. Despite IP+ activated, I was disappointed on the low bands, couldn't hear 40m stations in California (from Seoul), and was unhappy. Even with attenuation activated, the 7300 whimpers home and cries to mama, losing faint signals in a dithered mess of hiss. I'm not talking about the Noise Blocker, which is very good on the 7300 - I'm talking about the plethora of lights, electronics, and noise-producing items that attack the radio's front-end when you're in a large multi-story urban environment such as Seoul, Korea. The 7300 is an excellent high-band radio, but it doesn't handle general city noise well on the low bands, and quickly becomes overloaded if you have a lot. I sold my Icom 7300 to get this radio, partly because I was not satisfied with the 40m performance of the 7300.

I'm also an SSB person - not CW - but once you learn how many of these tweaks work, you can employ them as you like with CW signals. I'm not as fond of menus, but if they're there, I try to learn whatever I can to help me pull out the weak DX stations. When I bought it, I knew that it was a pretty menu-intensive machine. I purchased the Yaesu FTDX 3000 a few months ago.