What I do here on the node in my home (27935 for now), using an Icom 706 is......
Set the "data" port to 9600. So I'm getting essentially discriminator out. And no pre-emphasis being done by the transmitter.
Use the "flat" audio from the radio and let the DSP do the de-emphasis and PL decode.
And also I let the DSP again handle pre-emphasis and PL encode.
If you have COR and/or PL decode logic outputs. You could still use the DSP for audio conditioning.
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