[TenTec] Corsair II

[GARY HUBER]

I still have my "original owner - last production run" Corsair II with all 
filters and external VFO. Side by side "ear ball" testing with Paragon (II) 
and OMNI VI+ (both late production models) have shown the Corsair II's 
greatest advantage to be dual receive capability in the DX pile-up... and no 
phantom (IMD) signals as the result of mixing of close in strong signals in 
the pile up (A+B-C, 2A-B, etc) with the capability of of hearing a "S-0 DX 
signal" 2 KHz down from a pile with numerous S-9+30 signals. "You can't 
work'em if you can't hear'em'

No computer interface may be a disadvantage, but the Corsair II with remote 
VFO is still next to the OMNI VI+ for the times when a second receiver or 
dual receive transceiver is needed. Other TT tranceivers have come and 
gone.... the Corsair II stays and for the money remains the best radio, I'll 
ever own.

73,

Gary - AB9M
www.csm-gh.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Tippett" <btippett at alum.mit.edu>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 12:41 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Corsair II


> NN8B:
>  >What are you guy's opinions about the Corsair II?
>
>          Peter Hart G3SJX has been doing Product
> Reviews for RSGB's RadCom Magazine for many
> years.  He gave a talk at the 2005 RSGB HF
> Convention titled "How well do our radios perform?"
>
>          Results from his tests included 48 rigs
> tested over many years.  They included the latest
> rigs except the FTdx9000 which was not out at that
> time.  Peter likes two primary metrics of a rig's
> receiver front-end performance:
>
> 1.  IMD Dynamic Range (3 kHz spacing)
> 2.  Reciprocal Mixing (aka Phase) Noise (3 kHz spacing)
>
> The Corsair II was #2 (by 1 dB to Orion) for IMD and
> #1 (by 1 dB over Orion) for Reciprocal Mixing Noise.
>
>          Although there might be serviceability
> issues for a rig that old, I would feel Peter's
> tests gave Corsair II a very solid endorsement.
>
>                                          73,  Bill  W4ZV
>
>
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