[TenTec] Propm RX

[John L Merrill]

I have an R4A I've been repairing here on the bench and with the same 
speaker, it sounds better than the Orion :-).

John N1JM

Grant Youngman wrote:
>  
> 
>>I agree. The receive audio is lousey on the Orion.
> 
> 
> Maybe you just need a decent speaker.  Or perhaps your inner ear needs some
> work :-)
> 
> The Orion has excellent SSB receive audio, as good or better than any HF rig
> I've used (many, new and old), and generally requires little in the way of
> receive EQ.  I do much prefer it with a little more than the usual bandwidth
> (say around 3 Khz or so), but that's no different than most radios which
> sound like cr*p at the typical narrow bandwidths everyone want to use.
> 
> Of course, it would benefit greatly from a pair of P-P 6V6's in the output
> stage, but I doubt that's in the plan :-)
> 
> Grant/NQ5T
> 
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