<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hello!</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I'm having an echo problem with a TDM
card. The TDM card is being fed by a channel bank just 12 or so feet
away. When you put an analog handset on the line, both the RX and
TX volume seem to be just fine. However, when I use the TDM card,
I have to have an rxgain of 13.5, and even then, the audio is relatively
quiet. I'm also getting echo on these lines, so I have turned the
txgain down as low as I can and still be heard. Right now, it's at
-6, but it will have to come up some because that is too quiet. But
I still have echo.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I am in the middle of trying to get
a milliwatt test line to calibrate the rxgain properly. However,
this won't help me with the txgain, will it? How can I properly calibrate
the txgain? By ear? Or is there a more scientific method?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">For example, once I have the rxgain
calibrated for all of the lines, could I then call into, say, Zap/3 from
Zap/4 and run Milliwatt() on Zap/3 and use ztmonitor on Zap/4 to calibrate
it? I'm sure it's not perfect, but would it be close enough?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">A second question: doesn't it
seem wrong that my rxgain and txgain are so far off when I'm just talking
to a channel bank 12 feet away? I sure don't have cable loss. It
sure seems like the impedance is way off or something. Is there a
way to test this further, rather than just cranking up the gain? My
guess is that using the milliwatt line will just tell me to make the rxgain
higher, which will probably just make the echo issues worse... </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Tim Massey</font>
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