All the 5000's out there sound horrible with that close in spur on TX. I
understand they finally released a fix.
SDR's are at least another design generation away before Id consider one.
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Fuqua" <wlfuqu00@uky.edu>
To: <audioguy@q.com>; "Roger (sub1)" <sub1@rogerhalstead.com>
Cc: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Homebrew is back..
> It had seemed to me, at least for receivers, that the single conversion
> ones with a premixer rather than a
> triple conversion sounded better. The idea being the fewer conversions you
> had the cleaner the signal sounded.
> Perhaps that applies to transmitters to. Like the FLEX and other that
> generate SSB directly. Now saying that
> I think I may look for a Heathkit SB10. It was a direct SSB generating
> exciter. But the audio bandwidth is
> limited by the audio phasing network's frequency range.
> 73
> Bill
>
> Do you need a FLEX to really appreciate the audio of a FLEX?
>
>
> At 08:21 PM 3/29/2011 -0400, Jim Barber wrote:
>>Not that I'm the shiniest coin in the jar, but I've had nothing but
>>compliments on the audio, both on AM and (E)SSB.
>>
>>Of course - you do need to set up a correctly-shaped transmit filter,
>>then set the noise gate, compression and EQ correctly, etc.
>>I wouldn't accuse it of being a beginner's rig. In a lot of cases a
>>Ranger and a D104 would no doubt work out better.
>>
>>OT, sorry.
>>
>>73
>>Jim, N7CXI
>>
>>
>>On 3/29/2011 3:54 PM, Roger (sub1) wrote:
>> > On 3/29/2011 3:24 PM, Jim Barber wrote:
>> >> Having just sold most of my old iron, (there was alarming talk of a
>> >> "basement singularity") I'll mention that a Flex 5000A with a good mic
>> >> and an adequately-powered 8877 will make exceptional legal-limit-plus
>> >> AM, both TX and RX.
>> >>
>> >> Well... The amp could still be homebrew, right?
>> >
>> > It looks like a great rig, but all of them I've heard so far sounded
>> > pretty bad which I attribute to the operators.
>> >
>> > 73
>> >
>> > Roger (K8RI)
>> >> Running away now,
>> >> Jim N7CXI
>> >>
>> >> On 3/29/2011 12:03 PM, Carl wrote:
>> >>> Who says it has to be run that way? Amateur grade iron sells for over
>> $100
>> >>> for just an old 100W mod transformer and there is poor low end plus
>> >>> no
>> >>> headroom for processing.
>> >>>
>> >>> Carl
>> >>> KM1H.
>> >> [sanity snip]
>> >>
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