Jerry with your permission I'd like to reproduce part of your message here. Okay, so although K0CQ didn't come out and say it, I will assume that by this and his previous paragraph, which I cut, he b
Hi, Everybody, I don't think there's any question that closing down your receiver's bandwidth will lower the noise floor and improve the receive signal-to-noise ratio, up to a point of diminishing re
May I ask a dumb question? I am joining this thread late, so I apologize if this has already been addressed, but I just visited the Ten Tec web site and nowhere in the Orion pages does it say that th
Hi, Everybody, I am about to talk about some of Ten Tec's competition in a manner that will "stir the pot" and reveal a somewhat "anti-Kensucom" bias. If this is going to offend your sensibilities, p
In my third year of high school, I had a friend who passed U.S. History class by only looking at the pictures and the captions in our textbook. That is kind of how I read the QST product reviews. The
AN INTERVIEW WITH JACK SPRAT - VICE-PRESIDENT, AMATEUR RADIO SALES, KENSUCOM, INC. CW Forever magazine caught up with Jack Sprat at his Seattle apartment to talk about the current state of amateur ra
Now it's my turn to say, "Huh?" You mean the Ten Tec spec includes what happens in the first hour after power on? That would be highly irregular. Nobody that I know who buys a piece of test equipment
Hi, Mark, This is a real issue with battery operation. Lead-acid batteries may start out at 12.6 V, but very rapidly the terminal voltage drops off more or less linearly with time. I have made disch
Yes! Duane, that's so funny. I have a theory on digital clocks. Whenever I see one, I have to imagine an analog clock face to get a 'feel' for what time it is. Sometimes you don't need to know that
One of the customary measurements in the ARRL product reviews of amateur transceivers is a screen shot of the transmitted CW waveform. In general, Ten Tec radios test favorably while other radios fre
Paul, I've been following very closely the digital experiments at WOR. For the rest of the folks: WOR is an AM radio station in New York. The most recent audio samples of the WOR analog and digital s
George, I'll take this one. While it is true that the channels are 10 kHz apart, in any one geographical area you never have two stations with adjacent channel allocations because the AM signal is wi
Aw, c'mon, George, that question is simply meant to provoke. You already know why! Look, I can be just as silly: For that matter, What are the advantages of transmitting a signal with more than 25 W
Yes, George, I'm sorry I didn't get the tone of sincerity that I should have from your post, but you gotta understand that when you follow up a post with a "Sorta hard to answer, eh?" post it casts d
Shhh, Carl, you used a bad word: fidelity. You see, almost nobody is even considering fidelity in any of these discussions. Only bandwidth. As hams, we're not suppposed to be concerned about fidelit
I have posted on this topic here before. You may cringe at such a blanket statement, but *all* switching mode power supplies generate noise. As users of extremely sensitive RF receiving equipment, we