[BC] IBOC power increase

[Jeff Welton]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Chuck Leavens <chuck at wduq.org> wrote:
Geez John too bad those guys at Nautel cant get it together- ;-)

On Feb 1, 2010, at 8:14 PM, John Holt wrote:
> I just bought a new Nautel NV40 (three months ago) and it came with
> 15 factory adjusted presets that have several analog or HD only
> settings and also go from FM + HD 120dBc to 10dBc in 1dB steps.

Hey, I resemble that remark!!!

Actually John, you can program up to about 100 presets into the NV40, with any combination of audio input, active exciter (if you have the dual exciter config), power level, frequency and HD injection level, as well as various SCA/RDS configurations, audio delay and several other items.  Changing a preset is as simple as hitting the menu button, selecting preset, dialing in new parameters (or selecting the preset you want to change then dialing in the parameters) and hitting save (you can also assign it a name - when you hit the area where the filename is shown, a keyboard will pop up so you can type it in).  If you want the preset you just saved to be the active one, I believe the command is <Load> after that - I might be wrong on that one, I'm going by memory!

That's the deal for the entire NV series, from 3.5-80kW.  For the V series, a software payload will be required for the M50 exciter - we've got some more testing to do at various injection levels before we're done with that, but it's coming soon to a transmitter near you!  Obviously, I can't give step by step for that yet, nor do I have the exact time frame except to be able to say it's a priority - but we have done some testing on the V series at -10dBc injection levels and were happy with what we found so far, we just want to make sure we don't introduce any bugs by releasing something before we've had a chance to run it around the track a few times.

Hope that helps!

Jeff

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