[BC] 8100xt2 pilot issue

[Bowen, Jonathan]

This brings up a question I have been pondering. As far as I know my 8100 is working fine. However that is the device that creates the composite feed then ends up being transmitted after being sent through my STL (usually except my stl died on me and I'm downlinking satellite to it now) Anyway... I have noticed in the past that when scanning on my car radio the radio tends to skip my station. Could my 8100 be causing this by fluctuating slightly and causing the pilot to shift just enough to confuse the radio?

I haven't tried it after I bumped our audio level up a bit. We where broadcasting softer audio and after I took over I bumped us up a bit to make the level not loud but also comparable to other radio stations. Could the lack of loudness be a more likely cause?

Jonathan Bowen
RBN Field Engineer

-----Original Message-----

The mod monitors I have checked it with are a newer Inovonics and a
pira.cz"broadcast analyzer" unit (non-FCC type certified but seems to
be pretty
accurate compared to real mod monitors).  I have also noticed the pilot
dropping out on some radios when this unit was in use.

Thanks for the heads-up on the switches, etc.  I have had QEIs at my
previous employer that had a lot of dirty switch issues. The QEI was a good
monitor if a guy could keep all of the switches and alignment pots working
correctly.

Thanks!

PR