[TenTec] Argonaut V Audio

[John Sheeley]

Toby
I use a w2ihy 8 band EQ or his EQ plus on my Argo 5
either one seems to improve the  Argo 5 audio a lot.I
have not done the hardware upgrade .I am still runnig
1.07.

John/wb4qda

--- Toby Pennington <toby423 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> Ray, If you had to use the new Argo V with its
> present audio setup and roll
> off,  you would want it changed also.  Now,  the
> Corsair 2,  the Omni series
> all have communications audio and I would settle for
> this,  but the Argo is
> really, really, thin and gets  bad audio reports. I
> mostly rag chew and
> dxing is not important to me.  If I did do dxing
> with the Argo I still would
> want it to sound better.
> 
> It should at least sound as good as the  Ic 703 or
> the K2 which at present
> it doesn't.
> 
> Toby  W4CAK
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <RaySoifer at cs.com>
> To: <tentec at contesting.com>
> Cc: <ditsnbits at tentec.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 3:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Argonaut V Audio
> 
> 
> > While the Argo V, with its 350 Hz bass roll-off,
> does sound "thin,"
> remember
> > that bass frequencies do not contribute to
> intelligibility.  The Argo's
> > primary application is as a stand-alone QRP radio,
> and as such improving
> the bass
> > response would reduce the Argo's ability to get
> through DX pile-ups or to
> be
> > heard in weak-signal situations.  The Argo only
> has so many watts
> available, and
> > putting watts into bass inevitably takes them away
> from the higher
> frequencies
> > which do contribute to intelligibility.  I
> obviously wasn't there, but it
> > would seem logical to me that the choice of the
> Argo's audio response was
> > deliberate.
> >
> > I would hope, then, that if TT decides to put out
> a software mod to
> improve
> > the bass response, that they not bundle other
> changes with it.  That way,
> > implementing the mod would be completely optional
> with the user.  Those
> who want
> > more natural-sounding audio could go ahead and put
> the mod in, while those
> who
> > are primarily QRP weak-signal ops and DXers could
> leave it out.
> >
> > As for me, I'll just keep on with CW and RTTY.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Ray W2RS
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