[CQ-Contest] The great Kenwood debate

[Bill Turner]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 20:35:01 -0500, Kelly Taylor wrote:

>At the risk of inflaming die-hard Kenwood fans, my guess is no. The 870 got
>bad reviews on its IF DSP (basically high cut in one IF and low cut in
>another IF) that lets signals into the AGC loop even if the second IF
>filtering eliminates them.

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It's possible this might be a problem on SSB or CW using the
'870, but I use mine mostly on RTTY and I've never noticed an AGC
problem with it.

I suspect from comments I've heard over the years the '870 might
not be the best choice for SSB/CW contesting, but for RTTY I
can't imagine anything better.  If there is, I'd like to try one
out.  :-) 

73, Bill W7TI