Topband: Receivers for 160

Tom Rauch w8ji at contesting.com
Fri Feb 16 19:25:24 EST 2007


> general coverage capability. Where the K2 scores is that 
> it is designed
> purely for the ham bands, which allows a greater degree of 
> optimisation.

The K2 I saw was so good because it used a reasonable noise 
figure CATV transistor RF amp, a medium quality Minicircuits 
double balanced diode mixer, and a CATV transistor bipolar 
amp following the mixer. Then a filter.

73 Tom





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