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Re: [TenTec] FS: Orion 600 Hz Filter

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] FS: Orion 600 Hz Filter
From: Rick Dougherty NQ4I <nq4i@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 14:25:55 -0400
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Hi Bill....$60 ?/

de Rick

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Bill Tippett <btippett@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> Cleaning my shack and I found my prototype 600 Hz roofing filter for the
> original Orion.  This was the first prototype of what later became the
> Inrad #762 and eventually led Ten-Tec to redesign the front-end for Orion
> II.  This is a hand made unit with exposed crystals like original Orion
> 4-pole filters (photo in link below).  It also has the distinction of being
> the actual filter used by Rob Sherwood in his comments below, which were a
> vast improvement over ARRL's initial results using the optional 500 Hz
> filter (comparison below is to the stock 1 kHz 4-pole):
>
> * >*
>  * > At 5, 10 and 20 kHz, there is no significant difference between the*
>  * > stock 1.0 kHz Ten-Tec filter and the Inrad filter.*
>  * > At 2 kHz spacing, the improvement is on the order of 6 to 7 dB.*
>  * > At 1 kHz spacing the improvement is closer to 10 dB.*
>  * > There is some strange hysteresis of a couple dB, as you change the
> level*
>  * > around.  The IMD does not act exactly as one would expect.*
>  * > I am guessing the digital AGC is doing strange things, causing the*
>  * > hysteresis.*
>  * >*
>  * > The insertion loss of filters #2 and #3 are identical to the Ten-Tec
> 1.0*
>  * > kHz filter.*
>  * >
>
> *http://users.vnet.net/btippett/inrad_.htm  (photo and more background)
>
> Please reply direct...best offer over $50 ships Saturday by Priority Mail.
>
> 73,  Bill  W4ZV*
> *
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