diff --git a/lib/ft8/ft8b_2.f90 b/lib/ft8/ft8b_2.f90
index 5db727168..082706021 100644
--- a/lib/ft8/ft8b_2.f90
+++ b/lib/ft8/ft8b_2.f90
@@ -335,14 +335,14 @@ subroutine ft8b_2(dd0,newdat,nQSOProgress,nfqso,nftx,ndepth,lapon,lapcqonly,  &
         ios=mod(itone(i)+4,7)
         xnoi=xnoi+s8(ios,i)**2
      enddo
-
      xsnr=0.001
      if(xnoi.gt.0 .and. xnoi.lt.xsig) xsnr=xsig/xnoi-1.0
      xsnr=10.0*log10(xsnr)-27.0
-! need to reconcile signal normalization between this routine and the old ft8b_1 so 
-! that SNRs come out the same.
-     xsnr2=db(xsig/xbase - 1.0) - 32.0
-!     if(.not.nagain) xsnr=xsnr2
+     xbase=10**(xbase/10.0)
+!    factor=xnoi/xbase
+     factor=3.6e6
+     xsnr2=10*log10(xsig/xbase/factor-1.0)-27.0
+     if(.not.nagain) xsnr=xsnr2
      if(xsnr .lt. -24.0) xsnr=-24.0
      
      return
diff --git a/lib/ft8/sync8.f90 b/lib/ft8/sync8.f90
index f7510758f..c4d3d3efa 100644
--- a/lib/ft8/sync8.f90
+++ b/lib/ft8/sync8.f90
@@ -39,11 +39,6 @@ subroutine sync8(dd,nfa,nfb,syncmin,nfqso,ldecode77,maxcand,s,candidate,ncand,sb
      savg=savg + s(1:NH1,j)                   !Average spectrum
   enddo
   call baseline(savg,nfa,nfb,sbase)
-!  savg=savg/NHSYM
-!  do i=1,NH1
-!     write(51,3051) i*df,savg(i),db(savg(i))
-!3051 format(f10.3,e12.3,f12.3)
-!  enddo
 
   ia=max(1,nint(nfa/df))
   ib=nint(nfb/df)