Author: terry foskey via TenTec <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 00:34:28 +0000 (UTC)
Jim,I am in engineering, questioning why and developing designs, it's what I do. I have commercial and Amateur licenses. The rule you provide for Ham operations is true, however, the passage can be i
On Wed,12/9/2015 4:34 PM, terry foskey via TenTec wrote: Jim,I am in engineering, questioning why and developing designs, it's what I do. I have commercial and Amateur licenses. The rule you provide
I'm not sure I understand the point of this. True "state of the art" can become hideously expensive. Somewhere, there has to be some give. Yes, some of the current and many of the past transmitters a
You are confusing "bleeding edge, highly advertised, gold plated" with what the FCC intends. My point is that the Kenwood TS590S is NOT hideously expensive -- it's a very moderately priced, full-feat
Guys, how about this for an interpretation of dirty TX: I lived on a block with three hams. We had a Ten-Tec, an Icom, and a Kenwood, with about 100 meters between us. The Ten-Tec and Icom both fed a
Sorry Rick, but I must take issue based on my own experience. The OpenHPSDR software (a separate branch of PowerSDR, running on the ANAN radios) is more mature with more features at this point in tim
Ha, I was certain that comment would draw criticism. You are probably right. As I said, I was repeating Rob's comments when he set up for the contest. He had a nightmare of a time just trying to get
It took a very long time for Rob Sherwood's judgements to take hold and for real change to happen. The fact that some manufacturers are taking steps to improve the cleanliness of transmitters is enco
I actually think Tom W8JI deserves much (most?) of the credit, along with W2VJN, for originally flushing out the key click issue about 15 years ago. The focus was initially on the FT-1000(D) and FT-1
Great idea, Darrell, I thought about doing that on my web site, but I don't have the technical qualification to do it alone. I do get about 2000 visitors per day to my web, so a lot of people would s
Rick....I see the ANAN with pre-distortion enabled is off your chart (way above the rest) like it was off the ARRL chart in their recent review. ;-) Greg, KC8HXO I thought about doing that on my web
That was over 20 years ago, Barry, and yes, it was Tom. It was a $3 modification that anyone could d-i-y. After it was made public, it took Yaesu about 5 or 6 more years (one or two models later) to
There are so many things to consider when one chooses a radio. I went through this recently. In my case I wanted the brand, form factor, and ergonomics of the Kenwood TS-590S, the continued developme
The K3 has great rx/tx audio. Why do you say it has poor audio, or are you simply repeating something somebody else said and perhaps something that Elecraft corrected 8 years ago? 73, Barry N1EU ____
I said it was a fictitious chart. I just wanted to highlight Yaesu being rock bottom. And when you say way above the others, I doubt that is correct. I suspect you are quoting 3rd order IMD "only". W
http://www.dj0ip.de/app/download/5794190002/Elecraft+K3+rev+c.pdf http://www.cliftonlaboratories.com/elecraft_k3_receive_audio.htm As Rob noted, Elecraft did address this 8 years ago, but it was not
These issues are very personal, and depend a lot on what we're used to and what we've experienced. I'm retired from a career in pro audio, and am a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society. Except for
Jim, you brought up a little known but very important point on the K3. You said you listen 99.9% of the time with headphones. I don't. Well I do in contests but only in contests. Otherwise I'm always
If I'm not mistaken, there are separate output stages for phones and the speaker. The heart of the complaints with speaker audio on the K3 is that Wayne Burdick, principal designer, is a backpacker a
I have heard that before, but I have also heard that the real problem had something to do with the physical layout of the solder runs on thePC board (specifically the geography of the solder runs) an