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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Brian,<br>
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      If the application reports 999, my guess is you aren't inputting
      raw discriminator audio into the interface.  If the audio you are
      inputting into your radio interface has been Low Pass Filtered or
      is squelch gated, you cannot use DSP for noise squelch detection.
        The application will tell you if there is sufficient squelch
      noise to utilize DSP noise squelch detection after you do the
      "radio tune rxnoise" command. If it fails, the audio type, amount,
      or quality isn't sufficient for DSP noise detection.
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      When fed with good discriminator audio, the noise squelch
      detection in app_rpt is nearly as good as a Motorola M6709
      (analog) squelch chip, commonly thought to be the high water mark
      in noise squelch detection.  999 is the total absence of noise,
      and is the result one would expect with a full quieting signal, or
      an inappropriately muted RX audio line.
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      Kevin W3KKC
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      On 12/23/2018 7:28 PM, Brian G wrote:<br>
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          Merry Christmas</span><br
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          Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">My local
          club is working on setting up a few ASL nodes, and I've been
          busy modifying some CM119 based USB sound cards to control the
          radios. I'm using this card/dongle: </span><a
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        <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica
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          done several so far and have a few nodes working great with
          CTCSS carrier detect. One issue I'm consistently running into,
          is when setting the "RX Squelch Level" in the radio-tune-menu,
          it detects the current RX signal strength as 999. This results
          in the inability to use anything other than CTCSS for carrier
          detect. I can make plain old VOX work too, but it results in
          considerable (2 sec+) hang time.</span><br
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          Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Using
          DSP carrier detect won't work because it's impossible to set
          the squelch high enough (max value 999). It always thinks
          there's a signal present when there isn't. This happens
          regardless of whether there's a radio connected to the dongle
          or not. As a matter of fact it happens even when plugging in
          an unmodified dongle right out of the package. I need it to
          work with no CTCSS. VOX would be fine if it wasn't for the
          hang time, but would rather use the DSP option in
          usbradio.conf. </span><br
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        <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">I assume
          it's just the nature of the beast, and if I want it done
          properly I need an adapter and radio capable of COS. But maybe
          someone knows if there's something that can be done or not? 
          Anyone have any insight on how to either eliminate the VOX
          hang time, or eliminate that "invisible" signal? </span><span
          style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica
          Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">I might
          be overlooking something. Thanks for reading!</span>
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              Brian - VA3DXV<br>
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