Come to Europe Wade, you'll learn the difference (in favor of the Corsairs).
Upward conversion struggles here.
73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Wade Staggs
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 6:15 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Modern version of the Tec Tec Corsair - please Ten
Tec!
*Good Morning,*
* While the Corsair and Corsair II are fine
radio's. If you really want to split hairs, my Paragon ( 585 ) has
everything they have, plus very accurate ( no drift at all ) frequency
control. Don't believe me? Just find someone who owns one and sit down in
front of the rig. Now engage the 20 Db. pad and turn the RF Gain back just a
little bit. ( this is on the low bands ) It just seems like a different
world. And while I am posting. Why did the Paragon and Paragon II have
relatively short production runs? I know about the Dreaded ... PLL Out of
Lock ... problem with the 585 but once fixed, they are such Great Radio's.
Mine was acquired while broken but a thorough re-work of the Major and Minor
Loop Boards has turned it into a real Keeper. Almost 6 years now with no
failures or issues of any kind. Although about 6 months back we did replace
all capacitors in the PA enclosure. So, in summary, has anyone used a
Paragon ( 585 ) lately ? ? ? And who wants to trade their broken one for
something else? All input about the Paragons receiver appreciated.........
The Transmitter is Awesome also.*
*
73 from Wade/KJ4WS*
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:42 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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