the squelch circuit uses the voltage of the S-meter,but also includes operation as a noise as a noise squelch for FM
in the SSB CW,and AM modes ,thevoltage of the S-meter is passed into IC12,compared to the voltage level of the squelch variable resistor, andQ54 is controlled by Q52 which is connected to the output of pin 7.this opens and closes IC13. the analog switch IC, this analog switch switches detection output for the various modes, and sets the switching voltage of all modes to the low level for squelching ,pins 2.3.and 9 on the output side of the analog switch are all fed into the AF pre-amplifier,Q55.in the FM mode, a portion of the output signals is fed into the IC11 filter amplitier, and noise rectified by D102. the noise voltage is inverted and amplified by IC12,and the offset is adjust by R224 so that the level is low when there is no input, and high when there is an iuput signal. the output of
IC12 is passed into the comparator simultaneously with the S-meter output voltage at D101 for noise squelch, this is an S-meter squelch at levels causing large deflections in the S-meter,thus for multi-mode scanning the squelch level can be constantly set to the same value ,the dynamic range of the S-meter for FM is the same as deflection for outher modes