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Rainier Lamers 01-16-2018 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by dutchroll (Post 1232452)

In any case, my existing VHF com is a very saleable brand and it might be worth replacing it and integrating the V16 with my Explorer Lite and seeing how it goes.

There are many variables in the design of a receiver that can influence this - it does not necessarily mean that your radio is worse than others - in fact, it may be better. A more sensitive radio, a radio with a larger bandwidth or a radio with a fast acting squelch will react to these pulses negatively - but in the absence of these interfering signals may well be better than a radio that does not react to the interference.

There is an interesting NASA report ion some research involving navigation receivers and interference (mostly from FM broadcast sources) which states that the most sensitive receivers where more affected (which makes a lot of sense of course). Partly based on this report my challenge was to make a navigation radio that would be sensitive yet robust with respect to interference. It can be done but you effectively have to throw away the traditional superhet receiver if you want to keep things manageable and embrace new ways of making receivers which avoid some of the issues by fundamental design. Luckily - just that is now possible using some relatively newly released chips and an almost enormous amount of pretty complex maths. As I mentioned earlier - a completely ridiculous effort to produce a simple AM receiver in the most complicated way possible. But once done, bits and bytes are cheap and the result is quite respectable...

Rainier

sblack 01-16-2018 08:51 AM

Rainier when will this radio be available in North America?

Rainier Lamers 01-17-2018 02:39 AM

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Originally Posted by sblack (Post 1232620)
Rainier when will this radio be available in North America?

A batch of V16 receivers has been with Matt since about mid December (that is with MGL Avionics USA in California). They have just reopened after the holidays so I assume they would be shipping now.
The N16 has just been released for production a few days ago - usually takes 3 to 4 months to first shipping unless there is an issue getting hold of some components - don't think there are any shortages at this point since it shares much of the circuitry with the V16.

I'll probably send off a N16 in the next two or three weeks for FCC (not strictly required but makes it easier to get these things through customs).

Rainier
CEO MGL Avionics


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