Bottom line is , how does it sound, not how does it look on the monitor,.
Some where we loose sight of the fact this is a radio, primarily designed for
the ham bands and SWL and should be good on cw and ssb and operate well on
several other modes such as AM and FM, and FSK. and yes you can drive the sub
reciever into the am broadcast bands, but I have a stereo in the living room
with 5 channels of sound for that purpose. I don't expect that from the Orion,
It was designed for hams, not audiophiles.. EH?
We have the options of opening the BW up to 6k and narrowing it to 100
cycles, and filter it a dozen different ways, and I can usually find a combo
that works for the purpose I need at the moment. My very last concern is
that
it does or does not show up as a "true" wide band signal of 6000 cycles on
the display.
I got my radio to send and receive.. all that other stuff is to help control
it, but somewhere you have to remember this is a radio, not a piece of test
equipment.
What does it take to please some folks on this reflector?? I am glad my name
is not Ten Tec. They have an extremely difficult road ahead of them to
please everyone, all the time!!
Your Mileage May Vary.
tom N6AJR
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In a message dated 3/16/2006 3:13:53 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
nq5t@comcast.net writes:
No one is disputing the mathematics behind one sideband with carrier, and
we'd all like to have a full 6Khz or therabouts per sideband. It's all
true, and it's mostly totally beside the point. In any real, PRACTICAL
sense, one sideband with carrier, obtained by shifting the passband is not
the "Orion II/v2 is broken" disaster you make it out to be.
You tell me -- in the presence of selective fading, band noise, other
miscellaneous interference -- whether you are going to have your SWBC
experience nullified by shifting the passband? I don't think so.
And besides, that what a sync detector is for, if only the Orion had one :-)
Grant/NQ5T
>
> Furthermore, attempting to amplitude-demodulate only the
> carrier and a single sideband generates nonlinear distortion,
> caused by the fact that the resulting RF envelope no longer
> represents the audio signal faithfully.
>
> A single sideband of an AM signal can be demodulated without
> distortion by a linear process, i.e. a product detector
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