[TenTec] Low-pass filter?

[k0bx at arrl.net]

I have always had a Drake TV-3000-LP filter in line at my shack.

Then I got a Icom IC-756PRO-3 transceiver.  It took me a few months to understand why I never heard anything on 6 meters?  I knew me radio had 6 meters, I paid for it and it should work!

Never mind.  Seems that the LP filter cut off on receive and transmit at 33 MHZ's.  I guess 6 meters is higher than that!

So my suggestion don't use a LP filter if your radio has 6 meters and you want to use it.
Drake made a TV-5200-LP filter that would pass the 6 meter signals but I have yet to find one at a Hamfest.

Joe K0BX - Not a vanity Call.


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