Using Headphones For Dual Receive; Sideband Diversity Reception - Yaesu FTDX9000D - DATA MANAGEMENT Operation Manual

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Using Headphones for Dual Receive

To take advantage of dual reception, you will want to connect stereo headphones to the PHONES jack. Like the AF GAIN
control, headphone audio mixing can also be configured as desired from Menu Selection "RX AUDIO 084 HEAD-
PHONE MIX." Three audio mixing schemes are selectable as follows:
SEPARETE: Audio from the Main band (VFO-A) receiver is heard only in the left ear, and Sub band (VFO-B) receiver
audio solely in the right ear.
COMBINE-1: Audio from both Main (VFO-A) and Sub (VFO-B) band receivers can be heard in both ears, but Sub band
(VFO-B) audio is attenuated in the left ear and Main band (VFO-A) audio is attenuated in the right ear.
COMBINE-2: Audio from both Main (VFO-A) and Sub (VFO-B) band receivers is combined and heard equally in both
ears "Monaural" mode).

Sideband Diversity Reception

Here you receive a single AM signal through the two receivers, each receiving the opposite sideband. Skywave-propa-
gated signals often show phase distortion in this mode, but it gives you a view of the entire passband, from which you can
then select the best sideband for listening (or for SWL Dx'ing, you may want to listen to both sidebands at the same time,
to get the best copy). On groundwave signals, where the phase of the sidebands is likely to be the same, there is an
interesting sense of depth to the signal.
To tune in a signal using this mode, you should have stereo headphones connected to the front panel PHONES jack or an
external stereo speaker connected to the rear panel EXT SP jacks.
Set the main band (VFO-A) to either LSB or USB
mode, and tune for zero beat on the desired signal.
Press the [ A B ] button to copy this mode and fre-
quency into the sub band (VFO-B), then press the
mode button to select the opposite sideband for the
main band (VFO-A).
If using headphones, set the headphone mixing
scheme to the "COMBINE-1" mode via the Menu
Selection "RX AUDIO 084 HEADPHONE MIX",
and activate dual reception.
Adjust the [ AF GAIN ] knob(s) to balance the vol-
ume of the two receivers.
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[ A B ] switch
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If interference is present on one of the channels, you may
have to turn its AF GAIN control to suppress that channel
(or press the green "RX" LED/button to disable the re-
ceiver with the sideband experiencing interference). Oth-
erwise, try changing the headphone audio mixing scheme
to "COMBINE-2" or "SEPARATE" in the Menu Selec-
tion "RX AUDIO 084 HEADPHONE MIX" for differ-
ent effects (or try settings with similar effects on your ex-
ternal amplifier). Although you don't get the "stereo-
phonic" effect in the monaural mode, the two signals are
still mixed, offering the potential for much better copy
than in regular AM or even single-sideband ECSS modes.
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