SSB on R2500

[kf4mgu]

I just got my R2500 and really like it so far except for I'm having trouble copying any kind of SSB communications. I've tuned around 40 and 80 meters and can't get the receiver to break squelch. When I use the exact same settings I can at least get noise when I switch it to AM mode. I get nothing on USB or LSB. I copy shortwave broadcast and WWV fine. Any suggestions?
Tim KF4MGU

 

[Turbo68]

I would say keep reading the manual and you will get there.

Lino Melbourne Australia.

 

[obijohn]

I would suggest that you open your squelch. Unless you have the receiver hooked up to a really good antenna, on 40 and 80 meters you will not hear much with the squelch closed.

 

[KC1UA]

HF conditions are not the greatest right now either. Definitely open the squelch. Sometimes with these radios less is more also. Too good of an antenna might overload its front end. These radios really shine on VHF and UHF, and are not good for serious shortwave work, just casual listening. Turn that squelch all the way down, make sure you're using a narrow filter setting, and also remember that SSB utility stations don't constantly transmit. They are fleeting and require a good deal of patience sometimes.

Best of luck with it.

 

[kf4mgu]

I appreciate the thoughts. Still strange to me that I can hear other hams talking when it's in AM mode but when I switch over to dial them in USB/LSB they disappear. There is no sound at all with the squelch turned either way. With every other hf rig I've had you at least heard noise or static.
Tim KF4MGU

 

[bagmouse7]

In the old PCR-1000's Icom software you had to turn off the bandscope when you wanted to listen to SSB transmissions. This might still be the case with the 2500.

 

[kf4mgu]

Now It's Working!

Like I said, thanks for the comments. I'm not sure what happened but it's receiving now. I had restarted everything several times and decided to reconnect the remote head one more time before I went to bed and found that this time it was receiving in LSB/USB. I disconnected the head and just used the software but still no receive on LSB/USB. Just for the heck of it I pulled up the cloning software and was looking at the read and write choices to the receiver. When I choose to exit and go on to bed the LSB frequency I had been testing came to life. I tooled up and down the dial and different modes and everthing appears as it should. Not sure what that means but maybe it will help someone else. Thanks for everyones input.
Tim KF4MGU

 

[kf4mgu]

Bagmouse7 is right, on page 98 of the instruction manual is the answer to my problem.
Thanks,
Tim KF4MGU