Steve,
Thanks for the reminder about the 870 - I had forgotten about it.
I think that the real achievement with the Pegasus was boiling down a DSP
transceiver into a package at a competitive price point and with adequate,
but not outstanding, performance such that the average ham would be
inclined to venture into the world of DSP radios. The steps taken to hold
the price point are fairly obvious, but the performance, again, is "good
enough" for most hamming and much better than other conventional rigs in
the same price range or even slightly higher. While the Pegasus could not
compete with the Kachina on performance, the Kachina proved too expensive
to complete its development and to continue to market. So, TT captured a
significant of the low-end DSP market.
Yaesu missed their brass ring completely with the MK V. Icom is improving
with each new generation of the PRO. Now, TenTec has its opportunity to
claim leadership. Let's hope they do well. As amateur operators we can only
benefit from these developments and the competition.
72/73/oo, George W5YR - the Yellow Rose of Texas
Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13qe
Amateur Radio W5YR, in the 56th year and it just keeps getting better!
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Steve Ellington wrote:
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> True and don't forget the TS-870 which uses DSP for both receive/transmit
> filtering, tx audio equalization and AGC. Looking at the diagrams, I can't
> see where TenTec did anything new with the Pegasus except for firmware
> update capability and that was just a matter of choice on their part. The
> Yaesu FT-MKV is still using DSP as it was in the FT-MP, basically an audio
> filter outside the agc loop. The only difference is that the MKV has the DSP
> ganged with the xtal filter selected. In my opinion, if the recieve DSP
> isn't in the agc loop, it's nothing but a glorified audio filter.
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