[TenTec] INRAD Filter Question

[tlogan7 at cox.net]

I had the same experience Jim had. At first I thought I had done the right thing on my Omni V with Inrad filters. However, I now have an Omni VI+ and far prefer the TenTec filters. I would not put Inrads in it. My 2 cents. 73/Tim
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> From: "Jim Reid" <jimr.reid at verizon.net>
> Date: 2003/05/23 Fri PM 04:28:37 EDT
> To: <geraldj at isunet.net>,  <tentec at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] INRAD Filter Question
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> > If anything its the other way around. Steeper skirts and squarer
> > passband corners mean more ringing, and so the Inrad 
> > should ring more than the TT filters.
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> And...INRADS come up again a ways out from the frequency band
> shown in the example response curves.  That,  to me,  is
> the great reason to stay with the Ten Tec filters and not
> substitute the INRADS.  I did that a three or so years ago in the
> OmniVI+ I had at the time.  For awhile I thought I had done
> the correct thing;  then realized I had not.  To the fellow who
> bought the rig from me,  I shipped the Omni to him equipped
> 100% with the INRAD filters;  but,  for what he paid me,  I
> also shipped to him every one of the Ten Tec filters that
> I originally had....all the sockets were filled with TT filters.
> He is an avid CW man,  and I suspect he has taken out
> the INRADS and replaced the TT's back in,  hi.
> 
> 73,  Jim  KH7M
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