My Orion sounded like a banjo the other day. There, now we can really
enjoy the banjo and accordian jokes!
73, Duane
(I left my car unlocked with a banjo in it the other day. When I got
back, I found someone had broken in and left two more banjos.)
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:11:15 -1000 Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@verizon.net>
writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I just got done reading the August QST reveiw of the IC-7800. Bob
> Heil
> says "The receiver was very sensitive and yet with all the filter
> selections, you can narrow it down and it doesn't sound like and
> accordion". I have only owned perhaps a dozen rigs, and have never
> heard
> anything out of them that resembled an accordian sound, except when
>
> there was accordian music in the radio program. I have been able to
> get
> some pretty strange sounds out of my JPS NIR-12 DSP by overdriving
> it,
> but I have still never got an accordian sound. One of the things I
> have
> fun doing with radios, aside from actually using them for
> communciations, is playing with the knobs to get weird sounds out of
>
> them. I started with a Hammarlund Super-Pro BC-779 back in the
> sixties
> and by tuning to various kinds of multiplexed data signals, was able
> to
> get some pretty far out sounds. Still I have not acheived anything
> that
> reminded me of an accordion sound. Can anyone recommend a method to
> get
> an accordion sound out of my rig? The most easily available rigs I
> have
> are Ten-Tec Omni VI and Paragon (with all filters down to 250 Hz),
> and I
> still have a BC-779. If necessary I could also try with a Kenwood
> TS-440
> or a Halicrafters Sky Buddy.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken N6KB
>
>
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Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas
http://home.austin.rr.com/ac5aa
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