Please understand, I have no lack of respect for Mr. Sherwood.
I read his very first articles back in the day when he was beginning his
tinkering with the Drake R-4C, a basically good (for its day) receiver begging
for the improvements Rob offered.
The heritage of his technical contributions is long and very useful. He has
made a positive impact on radio design by all of the manufacturers, by some
more than others, but still an impact.
That’s quite an achievement.
Gary
> On Sep 10, 2016, at 3:38 PM, rick@dj0ip.de <Rick@DJ0IP.de> wrote:
>
> As does the 6700, but NOT the 6300.
>
> As Jim pointed out, the biggest problem 'til now has been the UI, not the
> radio's performance.
> The Maestro has helped that quite a bit but it is not every man's cup of
> tea.
> Just ask Barry.
>
> We need more radios like the MB-1. Unfortunately I have not seen any
> performance reports on it yet.
>
> The nice thing is, all of these seem to have very clean transmitters.
> That was perhaps a dangerous statement. I meant clean as in not
> broadcasting out of band noise.
> I don't know about the keying spectrum of each of them.
>
> My problem is simply the price. You can almost buy a new compact car for
> the price of a 6500 and Maestro here in Europe!
>
> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
> (Nr. Frankfurt, Germany)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Carl
> Moreschi
> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2016 10:15 PM
> To: k9yc@arrl.net; Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Scads of used Icom IC-7300
>
> The 6500 does have band pass filters for the ham bands.
>
> Carl Moreschi N4PY
> 58 Hogwood Rd
> Louisburg, NC 27549
> www.n4py.com
>
> On 9/10/2016 3:23 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
>> On Sat,9/10/2016 12:10 PM, Carl Moreschi wrote:
>>> The clip point on my Flex 6500 is S9+80 DB. That's +7 dbm.
>>
>> 5W at the antenna input. That's a LOT of signal.
>>
>>> If it were to happen that I had signal overload, I would put the 20
>>> db attenuator on.
>>
>> Or engage a bandpass filter if the signal is out of band.
>>
>> My neighbor, K6TD, an excellent EE and contester, told me two years
>> ago that the 6500 is the best radio he's ever owned, but that the UI
>> was awful. The UI has been improved to the extent that some major
>> contesters are pretty happy. I know of at least four 6500/5700 owners
>> in NCCC (the SF Bay area contesters club), and all are both excellent
>> engineers and active contesters.
>>
>> 73, Jim K9YC
>>
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