Yea, well as long as we are discussing analog audio, my HQ-170AC with its 85
kHz IF and a 6"x 9" oval speaker sounds mighty good.
Bob, K4TAX
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> On Oct 2, 2014, at 7:42 AM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP <Rick@DJ0IP.de> wrote:
>
> As nice as its audio was, the KWM-2 would not be very good with today's
> crowded bands.
> The famous "Collins mechanical filter" was not really very good by today's
> standards.
> A 4-pole crystal filter on 455 kHz is as good or better and of course you
> can buy 6 or 8 pole filters now.
> And the DSP filters on lower frequencies are even better, sharper, and have
> steeper skirts.
>
> As long as we're dreaming, I wish I had 1960's band conditions again!
>
> All things considered, it's hard to beat the Corsair with its combination of
> good audio and good crystal filters.
> Newer radios have better filters but worse audio.
>
> For my money, the best compromise is the Eagle.
>
> 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
> (Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Martin Sole
> (HS0ZED)
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 11:37 AM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Modern version of the Tec Tec Corsair - please Ten
> Tec!
>
> I've long liked the analogue radio sound. So far my all time fave, just for
> the audio, is a KWM2 with that big 6x4 speaker, something about that warm
> sound seems magical. Next up from my current radios would be my Omni V. Not
> sure how that might differ from the Corsair but whilst generally pleasant
> it's not in the KWM2 league. Then the Orion 565 and Elecraft K3, bit of a
> mixed bag these two as they are both very variable but I've not yet been
> able to recreate the analogue sound. I might need to experiment with
> amplifiers right at the point the signal becomes analogue. A god analogue
> audio amp with LTP input and complementary pair output in discrete silicon
> feeding a big speaker, might sound very different.
>
> The TS940 had good audio too but for me about the same as the Omni V
>
> Martin, HS0ZED
>
>
>> On 02/10/2014 12:03, Barry N1EU wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 5:12 PM, John Farler <k4avx1@windstream.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a Corsair II with the DDS VFO, which works nicely. I think
>>> it's a single conversion though.
>>
>> Normally it converts to 9MHz, then to 6.3MHz, and then back to 9MHz,
>> unless you bypass the 6.3MHz PBT i.f. which can be done fairly easily
>> but you lose PBT and narrow filters and don't gain much.
>>
>> I agree on the CAT comment. I always dreamed of adding a CAT port to
>> the DDS cpu firmware.
>>
>> 73, Barry N1EU
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