I'll keep my vintage 1963 Collins 75S-3B with the Collins 2.1 kHz mechanical
filter. Comparing the ICOM, Kenwood, Yaesu and Orion, it makes them all
sound bad. Great audio comes from tubes. As to IM from BC stations, there
isn't any.
73
Bob, K4TAX
----- Original Message -----
From: "denton" <denton@oregontrail.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 5:27 PM
Subject: [TenTec] SSB recieve audio?
> Wonder how the Orion's SSB audio sounds compared to an Omni VI??
> For some reason, to my ears, my FT990 seems to sound better than my Omni
> VI
> on ssb.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John L Merrill" <jmerrill1@adelphia.net>
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 2:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Propm RX
>
>
>>I have an R4A I've been repairing here on the bench and with the same
>> speaker, it sounds better than the Orion :-).
>>
>> John N1JM
>>
>> Grant Youngman wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I agree. The receive audio is lousey on the Orion.
>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe you just need a decent speaker. Or perhaps your inner ear needs
>>> some
>>> work :-)
>>>
>>> The Orion has excellent SSB receive audio, as good or better than any HF
>>> rig
>>> I've used (many, new and old), and generally requires little in the way
>>> of
>>> receive EQ. I do much prefer it with a little more than the usual
>>> bandwidth
>>> (say around 3 Khz or so), but that's no different than most radios which
>>> sound like cr*p at the typical narrow bandwidths everyone want to use.
>>>
>>> Of course, it would benefit greatly from a pair of P-P 6V6's in the
>>> output
>>> stage, but I doubt that's in the plan :-)
>>>
>>> Grant/NQ5T
>>>
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