[TenTec] RF processor

[Jim M.]

Some do build them in.  My old retired Icom 775 does RF speech processing at a 9 Mhz TX IF.  In hardware, not dsp.  But I believe it can be done identically and probably better with software dsp at IF, as in modern radios.  This product is probably intended as an add on for old rigs.  I do wonder about this ten tec business plan however. 

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry N1EU <barry.n1eu at gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:32:52 
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment<tentec at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] RF processor


On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Larry DiGioia <o2 at longwire.com> wrote:
> Any time I see something like this, my first thought is, "if it's so
> simple to do, and works so well, why don't manufacturers just build them
> in?"
>

I'm not sure that they don't.  As someone mentioned previously, many
of us feel that the v1 Orion has the best ssb compression ever offered
in an amateur xcvr

Also, you can read Elecraft's (Lyle Johnson) response when they were
asked about the 715 - the K3 seems to use a similar compression
scheme:

http://n2.nabble.com/OT%3A-RF-Clipper-%22works-with-Elecraft%22-td2276805.html#a2290820


73,
Barry N1EU
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