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Re: [TenTec] Corsair II noise blanker

To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>, paulpolace <wn8qhf@wowway.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Corsair II noise blanker
From: "R. Eric Sluder - W9WLW" <resluder@yahoo.com>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:21:58 -0400
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I was responding to James comments on personal preference for NR & NB.

Eric
W9WLW


On March 29, 2014 6:34:45 PM EDT, paulpolace <wn8qhf@wowway.com> wrote:
|Correct Rick!
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|The topic is NB... NOT... NR.
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|Hard to believe or understand... yet my Century-22 actually handles
|noise 
|better than the Omni VII, and were going way back.
|Could the variable 8-pole bandpass filter been designed so well that it
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|accounted for such noise as well? or possibly just my experiences.
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|The Eagle here also does a better job than the Omni VII.
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|Interesting the NB in My Kenwood TS-590 works unbelievably well, yet
|the 
|design on that one allows a variable user interface to set accordingly.
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|Also Good Info there N6KB
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|-73-  -DX-
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|----- Original Message ----- 
|From: "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de>
|To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec@contesting.com>
|Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 3:02 PM
|Subject: Re: [TenTec] Corsair II noise blanker
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|> Correct, but the topic was NB, not NR.
|> The Eagle's NB is better than the OM7's.
|>
|> The reverse is true for NR.
|>
|> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
|> (Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
|>
|>
|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of R.
|Eric
|> Sluder - W9WLW
|> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 5:16 PM
|> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment; K8JHR
|> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Corsair II noise blanker
|>
|> I like the NR in the Omni VII much better than the one in the Eagle. 
|The
|> audio characteristics in the Eagle change dramatically in SSB and AM 
|> modes.
|>
|> On March 29, 2014 12:22:06 AM EDT, K8JHR <jrichards@k8jhr.com> wrote:
|> |Ken and Bob -
|> |
|> |Man... thanks - exactly the sort of explanation I wish they would
|put
|> |in user manuals for guys like me who are not radio engineers.
|> |
|> |Sidebar --
|> |
|> |There is an on-going debate on a Brand X radio forum, whether one NB
|> |(and/or NR) circuit is better than another.  The answer seems to be:
|> |"it depends" on the type of noise, and how it interacts with the
|> |desired signal.
|> |
|> |My Take --
|> |
|> | with NR and NB is entirely depen Satisfaction dent on one's
|> |expectations, generally, and one's tolerance of the necessary
|tradeoff
|> |between
|> |intelligibility and audio quality.   I am a fan of both internal and
|> |outboard DSP noise filters, but I know greater intelligibility comes
|> |with a price in lower audio quality.
|> |
|> |On the Brand X forum, some operators expect clean, pure, audiophile
|> |results after scrubbing and scouring with NR, NB, and related tools.
|> |Unfortunately, there just ain't no free lunches these days.
|> |
|> |Wish List Item --
|> |
|> |I like the NR on my Omni VII, although I preferred how it worked in
|> |earlier firmware.  (I am less enamored with the NR on my Orion II.)
|> |
|> |Too bad we cannot select feature updates from a smorgasbord of
|firmware
|> |
|> |versions, sort of a mix-n-match thing.  Now, THAT would be cool.  
|(I
|> |can, however, just imagine the programming nightmare THAT might
|entail!
|> |
|> | We would be visiting John Henry in the looney bin sooner than
|later!)
|> |     ;-)
|> |
|> |Just My take.
|> |
|> |------------------------ K8JHR  ------------------
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