[TenTec] SSB recieve audio?

[denton]

Wonder how the Orion's SSB audio sounds compared to an Omni VI??
For some reason, to my ears, my FT990 seems to sound better than my Omni VI 
on ssb.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John L Merrill" <jmerrill1 at adelphia.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Propm RX


>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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