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> From: Clark Savage Turner <csturner@falcon.csc.calpoly.edu>
*snip*
> Yes, it would be nice if Ten Tec's audio chain generated less hiss.
> Contrary to others' experiences, my Japanese Kenwood TS 850 is does not
> generate hiss in the audio, and clearly generates a broader range of
clean
> sounding audio.
> This is *not* because the TS 850 has more synthesizers (hi)...
> and certainly not because of Kenwood's audio rolloff. I can kick in the
6
> KHz filters or the 2.7's and hear a brighter sounding SSB, not muddy at
> all, with the Kenmore appliance :-)
Ah, there we go. All this time I'm thinking about my home stereo system
with its 90dB S/N ratio. Why can't a rather simple receiver design
accomplish the same thing? Yea, I know we're comparing apples to oranges
but I can't help it think that TT just chose to not address the hiss issue
because they didn't think it was worth the cost.
Regardless, now that I have my hi-fi 'phones running through an inline
volume control, most of the hiss is gone.
TenTec - Amazing rigs. Rough around the edges, always gave me the feeling
that I was using an engineering prototype, but they do work pretty darn
well!!
73 all!
Keith Darwin
KD1E
Ferrisburg, VT
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