[TenTec] CORSAIRS I AND II

[Barry N1EU]

Just to echo the praise of the Corsair receiver:

I finally got my Corsair (orig) connected up to the Beverage receive antenna 
on 160M last weekend and was able to do A/B comparisons of its performance 
with a top-shelf modern Japanese rig.  In pulling the weak cw signals out 
from the static crashes, the Corsair performed beautifully.  Several times 
CW signals were still 100% copy on the Corsair when they were only about 50% 
copy on the other rig, as the signal turned mushy in the noise.  The high 
level of (adjustable) gain in the rf/if stages of the Corsair was more than 
enough for the unamplified Beverage signals.

I have to add that the Corsair was running with AGC off.  This is the 
obvious glaring weakness of the Corsair in high static conditions.  Sure 
wish I could retrofit a different AGC circuit and bring it up to par with 
the excellent rf/if chain.

73,
Barry  N1EU
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