[TenTec] "Accordion" sound?

Ken Brown ken.d.brown at verizon.net
Sun Aug 29 17:11:15 EDT 2004


Hi all,

I just got done reading the August QST reveiw of the IC-7800. Bob Heil 
says "The receiver was very sensitive and yet with all the filter 
selections, you can narrow it down and it doesn't sound like and 
accordion". I have only owned perhaps a dozen rigs, and have never heard 
anything out of them that resembled an accordian sound, except when 
there was accordian music in the radio program. I have been able to get 
some pretty strange sounds out of my JPS NIR-12 DSP by overdriving it, 
but I have still never got an accordian sound. One of the things I have 
fun doing with radios, aside from actually using them for 
communciations, is playing with the knobs to get weird sounds out of 
them. I started with a Hammarlund Super-Pro BC-779 back in the sixties 
and by tuning to various kinds of multiplexed data signals, was able to 
get some pretty far out sounds. Still I have not acheived anything that 
reminded me of an accordion sound. Can anyone recommend a method to get 
an accordion sound out of my rig? The most easily available rigs I have 
are Ten-Tec Omni VI and Paragon (with all filters down to 250 Hz), and I 
still have a BC-779. If necessary I could also try with a Kenwood TS-440 
or a Halicrafters Sky Buddy.

Thanks,

Ken N6KB




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