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Old 27th Nov 2004, 08:10
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SoftTop
 
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EOP, where in europe?

There could be many reasons for the "beep".

Is the character of the beep the same every the time?
Is it from a centre or tower?
Is it from the same centre ot tower each time?

My best guesses from the limited info so far is that it could be:

fist mic operation and a bit of feedback from speaker to mic at the tail end of a transmission;

transmitters and receivers are remote from the site where the ATCO is located and there is tone switching used between the user and the tx/rx site with poor filtering of the tone when the speech ceases;

mic gain too high and feedback when speech ceases.

It doesn't seem like it's meant to happen, sounds more like either a faulty frequency set up or poor operating technique on the part of the ATCO.

Have you subimitted a radio fault report?

Remote diagnosis - always a good game

ST
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