All my meters swing forward, receiver swings backwards

[groundwire]

This is a weird one. With either the radio, radio and driver, radio and big amp, or radio driver and big amp, my bird meter in pep mode swings forward. But stations receiving me say its swinging backwards on their meter. I have never seen it happen this way before. Usually meters will go backwards because of to much carrier etc but can this be a symptom as well?

 

[Shockwave]

This is a weird one. With either the radio, radio and driver, radio and big amp, or radio driver and big amp, my bird meter in pep mode swings forward. But stations receiving me say its swinging backwards on their meter. I have never seen it happen this way before. Usually meters will go backwards because of to much carrier etc but can this be a symptom as well?

Put the Bird in average mode. If it swings back in average, you are overdriving the amp and have run out of headroom to reproduce strong positive peaks.

 

[groundwire]

In avg mode it moves forward just a hair, literally. Pretty much no movement at all, weird.

 

[groundwire]

Im running a 2x2879 driver into a 16 pill. Final output carrier is only 500w swinging 2600w. Driver is 30w carrier swinging 300w. Its loafing along i would think

 

[543_Dallas]

In avg mode it moves forward just a hair. Pretty much no movement, weird.

Sounds like it's working fine. You won't see strong swing in average mode unless you're super swangin'.

 

[groundwire]

Heres another weird thing to me. One guy that was receiving me said when he turned his rf gain down then it had good forward swing on his end, huh? He was like 40mi away so we were not close at all.

 

[Slowmover]

This is a weird one. With either the radio, radio and driver, radio and big amp, or radio driver and big amp, my bird meter in pep mode swings forward. But stations receiving me say its swinging backwards on their meter. I have never seen it happen this way before. Usually meters will go backwards because of to much carrier etc but can this be a symptom as well?

(Only part joking)

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[sp5it]

Use scope Luke... you'll find out why.
Looks like overdrive to me.
Mike

 

[groundwire]

So 300w pep into a 16 pill is to much? Or the 500w carrier out of the 16? Im barely pushing it. All amps are b biased fyi

 

[AudioShockwav]

Is this only one guy giving you this report or everyone?
If you show forward on avg mode it should be good.
500 watt dead key out of 16 transistors should have plenty of headroom.

73
Jeff

 

[sp5it]

I lost my crystal ball.
Apply two tone to mic input and watch the output on the scope. Adjust until it will look fine.
Mike

 

[groundwire]

Is this only one guy giving you this report or everyone?
If you show forward on avg mode it should be good.
500 watt dead key out of 16 transistors should have plenty of headroom.

73
Jeff

Two people so far said back swing. In avg my meter doesn't move unless i back the carrier down to like 300w, than it goes forward a little. The driver meter swings big in avg mode. I dont have an oscilloscope

 

[338_MtRushmore]

Could 2600 watts at 40 miles make a receiving s meter act strange?

 

[groundwire]

Could 2600 watts at 40 miles make a receiving s meter act strange?

I know suuuper high power very close to a receiver can make the s meter read funny, but far away? I dont know

 

[TIN_CAN]

This is a weird one. With either the radio, radio and driver, radio and big amp, or radio driver and big amp, my bird meter in pep mode swings forward. But stations receiving me say its swinging backwards on their meter. I have never seen it happen this way before. Usually meters will go backwards because of to much carrier etc but can this be a symptom as well?

This is a weird one. With either the radio, radio and driver, radio and big amp, or radio driver and big amp, my bird meter in pep mode swings forward. But stations receiving me say its swinging backwards on their meter. I have never seen it happen this way before. Usually meters will go backwards because of to much carrier etc but can this be a symptom as well?

Does the radio have a swing kit? If so it could be installed backwards.......chuckle