[TenTec] SSB recieve audio?

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John -

What is the audio mod for the OMNI 6+?

----- 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 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] SSB recieve audio?


>I have a MkV Field and an FT1000D and with internal or external speaker
> they sound better to my inner or outer ears than my on the chopping
> block Orion with external and internal speaker. The OmniVI+ with the
> audio mod in it sounds better than an Orion.
>
> John N1JM
>
> denton wrote:
>> 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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