I'd be happy if manufacturers of "export" radios would just stop lying about them having noise blankers when they only have useless and mislabeled ANL. An effective noise blanker is your best friend for removing most of the junk that is actually removable.
When aligned properly, the optional "screw in" noise blanker board sold with my 1974 Tram D-201, works better than most NB circuits today. One of the best is the one used on the Uniden 8719 boards. It is more effective that any of my HF rigs, mostly because it only has to cover a narrow bandwidth.CB Is same thing. Not limited to export.
Cut coax & vehicle-noise then plug in a WMR DSP ClearSpeech Speaker.
I can then use the “useless” pre-amp on a KL203P effectively.
When aligned properly, the optional "screw in" noise blanker board sold with my 1974 Tram D-201, works better than most NB circuits today. One of the best is the one used on the Uniden 8719 boards. It is more effective that any of my HF rigs, mostly because it only has to cover a narrow bandwidth.
When money is no object, you do what Motorola did on their top of the line, low band radios. You add an entire receiver along side of the main one and call it the "extender board" or channel. The second receiver has the same sensitivity as the first but lacks any IF filtering, so that it accepts a wide input bandwidth of several hundred Khz.
When this receiver extender is on, any impulse interference detected in the main receiver channel is instantly compared against what is being heard in the wideband receiver. If the impulse is detected across the wide band receiver and the narrow one simultaneously, a blanking signal is sent to the first section of receiver amplification to blank out the interference. It can cope with anything from the smallest level of impulse noise, to the most aggressive noise that all other blankers fail to handle.
When aligned properly, the optional "screw in" noise blanker board sold with my 1974 Tram D-201, works better than most NB circuits today.
Granted, the Tram noise blanker does suffer from strong adjacent signals but, part of that is due to the fact it took them until the D-201A came out before they got the receivers AGC to function properly on strong signals.Until someone strong enough to bleed it keys up. Tram wimped and left the gain-control pin of the MC1350 blanker chip unused. Elecraft's K2 uses a startlingly-similar noise blanker circuit, but with its own AGC. Feeding into that same gain-control pin on the 1350 chip.
Incidentally, the Uniden noise blanker in the 8719 radios has its own AGC. And so does the blanker found in the RCI-made EPT36,69 and other pc boards.
I guess Tram didn't have room on the pc board.
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