[TenTec] "Accordion" sound?

Duane A Calvin ac5aa at juno.com
Sun Aug 29 17:56:02 EDT 2004


My Orion sounded like a banjo the other day.  There, now we can really
enjoy the banjo and accordian jokes!

        73,  Duane

(I left my car unlocked with a banjo in it the other day.  When I got
back, I found someone had broken in and left two more banjos.)


On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:11:15 -1000 Ken Brown <ken.d.brown at verizon.net>
writes:
> 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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Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas

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