[TenTec] Question for techies

[Ray Sills]

Of course, that's the comment by -one- reviewer.  Sometimes these  
issues are really opinions.. one person may like, another may not.
Differences between the performance level of various radios will  
certainly be related to the cost of the radio.  I'm sure they are all  
built to a price point.  To add more capability, or performance, you  
usually have to spend more.  And you then get to the usual trade- 
offs: fewer high performance radios vs. more lesser performing units,  
but more market share.

The IC7700 costs 3 times the amount of an Eagle.  Is the DNR 3 times  
better?  I doubt it.  There is often a point of diminishing returns  
for performance.  Engineers make things "good enough"... for the price.

73 de Ray
K2ULR



On Oct 31, 2010, at 3:47 PM, John Rippey wrote:

> I notice a comment by the first Eagle reviewer on eHam.net that the  
> DNR
> feature was unimpressive.
>
> Similar comments have been made about the DNR feature in the  
> Kenwood TS-590,
> including it continues the (to me awful) SPAC
> setup of the TS-570.
>
> On the other hand, Icom's 7700 and 7600 seem to provide the best DNR
> iteration so far, based on the comments I've seen. Yaesu, as usual,  
> seems to
> lag behind in the effectiveness of its various DNR iterations. So,  
> why does
> it seem so difficult for manufacturers (other than Icom) to get DNR  
> right in
> a DSP environmnent? Is it the cost of the hardware, firmware, software
> engineers, or what?
>
> 73,
>
> John, W3ULS
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