Boys, we are losing focus of what we want to achieve. We ( hams ) don't
want flat response from 20Hz to 7.5Khz! Your average SSB filter cuts off
at 2.4Khz. ANY audio above that frequency will tax the power bandwidth....
Just think about it.
Frank Krozel
KG9H
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Hyde <cshyde@yahoo.com>
To: Beamer, Jay <JBeamer@PanAmSat.com>
Cc: 'tentec@contesting.com' <tentec@contesting.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Friday, June 11, 1999 10:00 AM
Subject: RE: [TenTec] D-104
>
>There is another alternative Jay and that is to buy
>the Astatic 10-DA head instead of the D-104. The 10-d
>has a flat response and sounds pretty good for $65.00.
> Has hi and lo impedance also. Its a dynamic
>cartridge (No batteries needed) It fits right onto
>the Astatic bases and looks classical. Sorry about
>the wrench.
>
>--- "Beamer, Jay" <JBeamer@PanAmSat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well gang, on this D104, CarlW2CSH threw a wrench in
>> the whole thing for me
>> yesterday. Below is an excerpt from a personal email
>> from Carl, and hope you
>> don't mind me repeating a portion of it here, but
>> check out the site that
>> Carl has indicated.
>>
>> It appears that the Astatic D104 is being produced
>> with a response that
>> lends itself for CB/AM use. I always wondered what
>> the response of the D104
>> xtal element was! So, it appears as though there are
>> xtal D104's out there
>> that probably have a flat response, and those that
>> are not, with the non
>> flat response D104's being the most currently
>> manufactured. Interesting!
>> I've been told the D104 I use on my Omni V sounds
>> natural, but I did find in
>> playing with the thing with a parametric equalizer
>> that I had difficulty
>> getting any bass response out of the thing. Just so
>> happens that the
>> response curve on the site Carl has included shows
>> aprox. -12db up to
>> approx. 1K on an unmodified D104. I don't know what
>> I have! Guess it'll give
>> me another thing to investigate.
>>
>> My conclusion is that a D104 will probably, in most
>> cases, sound good on
>> most of the Ten tec xcvrs. If you want it to sound
>> better, acquire an older
>> model, or have those people from that web site
>> modify a new one for you.
>>
>> I wonder if the current freq. response of the D104
>> has anything to do with
>> the fact that no amateur web sites are referenced on
>> the Astatic web site?
>>
>> ciao,
>>
>> Jay/KM6VX
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Carl Hyde [mailto:cshyde@yahoo.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 12:10 PM
>> To: Beamer, Jay
>> Subject: RE: [TenTec] D-104
>>
>>
>> No I don't jest in this case. The rolloff and gain
>> curve of the newer Astatic D-104s is specifically
>> designed for CB or AM. There is a company on the
>> web
>> (URL is
>>
>http://www.angelfire.com/ma/electroservepro/d104.html)
>>
>> that will take your D-104 and make a real SSB mic
>> out
>> of it by flattening out the response curve. I have
>> also learned a lot about mics from Heil's web site.
>> I
>> have an Astatic 10-DA and I think its a much better
>> SSB mice than the D-104. But as you know Jay its
>> all
>> subjective. ......
>>
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>
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