[TenTec] Orion Sub Receiver BW

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Bottom line is , how does it sound, not how does it look on the monitor,.  
Some where we loose sight of the fact this is a radio, primarily designed for  
the ham bands and SWL and should be good on cw and ssb  and operate well on  
several other modes such as AM and FM, and FSK. and yes you can drive the sub  
reciever into the am broadcast bands, but I have a stereo in the living room  
with 5 channels of sound for that purpose. I don't expect that from the Orion,  
It was designed for hams, not audiophiles.. EH?
 
  We have the options of opening the BW up to 6k and narrowing it to  100 
cycles, and filter it a dozen different ways, and I can usually find a combo  
that works for the purpose  I need at the moment.  My very last  concern is that 
it does or does not show up as  a "true" wide band signal  of 6000 cycles on 
the display.
 
I got my radio to send and receive.. all that other stuff is to help  control 
it, but somewhere you have to remember this is a radio, not a piece of  test 
equipment.
 
What does it take to please some folks on this reflector?? I am glad my  name 
is not  Ten Tec.  They have an extremely difficult road  ahead of them  to 
please everyone, all the time!!
 
Your Mileage May Vary.
 
tom N6AJR
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In a message dated 3/16/2006 3:13:53 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
nq5t at comcast.net writes:

No one  is disputing the mathematics behind one sideband with carrier, and
we'd all  like to have a full 6Khz or therabouts per sideband.  It's all
true,  and it's mostly totally beside the point.  In any real,  PRACTICAL
sense, one sideband with carrier, obtained by shifting the  passband is not
the "Orion II/v2 is broken" disaster you make it out to  be.

You tell me -- in the presence of selective fading, band noise,  other
miscellaneous interference -- whether you are going to have your  SWBC
experience nullified by shifting the passband?  I don't think  so.

And besides, that what a sync detector is for, if only the Orion  had one :-)

Grant/NQ5T

> 
> Furthermore, attempting to  amplitude-demodulate only the 
> carrier and a single sideband generates  nonlinear distortion, 
> caused by the fact that the resulting RF  envelope no longer 
> represents the audio signal faithfully.
>  
> A single sideband of an AM signal can be demodulated without 
>  distortion by a linear process, i.e. a product detector