[Amps] Homebrew is back..

[Bill Fuqua]

   It had seemed to me, at least for receivers, that the single conversion 
ones with a premixer rather than a
triple conversion sounded better. The idea being the fewer conversions you 
had the cleaner the signal sounded.
Perhaps that applies to transmitters to. Like the FLEX and other that 
generate SSB directly. Now saying that
I think I may look for a Heathkit SB10. It was a direct SSB generating 
exciter. But the audio bandwidth is
limited by the audio phasing network's frequency range.
73
Bill

  Do you need a FLEX to really appreciate the audio of a FLEX?


At 08:21 PM 3/29/2011 -0400, Jim Barber wrote:
>Not that I'm the shiniest coin in the jar, but I've had nothing but
>compliments on the audio, both on AM and (E)SSB.
>
>Of course - you do need to set up a correctly-shaped transmit filter,
>then set the noise gate, compression and EQ correctly, etc.
>I wouldn't accuse it of being a beginner's rig. In a lot of cases a
>Ranger and a D104 would no doubt work out better.
>
>OT, sorry.
>
>73
>Jim, N7CXI
>
>
>On 3/29/2011 3:54 PM, Roger (sub1) wrote:
> > On 3/29/2011 3:24 PM, Jim Barber wrote:
> >> Having just sold most of my old iron, (there was alarming talk of a
> >> "basement singularity") I'll mention that a Flex 5000A with a good mic
> >> and an adequately-powered 8877 will make exceptional legal-limit-plus
> >> AM, both TX and RX.
> >>
> >> Well... The amp could still be homebrew, right?
> >
> > It looks like a great rig, but all of them I've heard so far sounded
> > pretty bad which I attribute to the operators.
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Roger (K8RI)
> >> Running away now,
> >> Jim N7CXI
> >>
> >> On 3/29/2011 12:03 PM, Carl wrote:
> >>> Who says it has to be run that way? Amateur grade iron sells for over 
> $100
> >>> for just an old 100W  mod transformer and there is poor low end plus no
> >>> headroom for processing.
> >>>
> >>> Carl
> >>> KM1H.
> >> [sanity snip]
> >>
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