Posted by
VR2BrettGraham on
Aug 10, 2006; 6:38pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Re-Wha-ts-Wrong-With-Our-Radios-WAS-NewProducts-Building-Demo-tp392768p392773.html
The TS-820 is single conversion & has IF shift, does it not?
IF shift is handiest I find for CW, as chance to move passband
such that unwanted signal outside or down the skirt.
IF shift on SSB tends to result in moving passband on to
another signal.
Much prefer the good skirts from cascaded filters on CW, rather
than upper skirt of one filter & lower skirt of other with variable
bandwidth tuning.
And much prefer VBT on SSB, as can cut down to just enough
to understand what is being said if need be.
The K2 is a nice rig, but really wasn't intended for something
demanding like (c-word deleted). I have yet to turn in a top ten
world score in a (c-word deleted) with the K2, but can do so with
TS-950/IC-765. K2 only used as substitute if one of those dies.
I find IF gymnastics indispensable even for (d-word deleted), as
well as well as good IF filtering - something in mainstream rigs
now for decades. Neither really needed for something with say
backpacking in mind - K2 rather lacking in latter, but more than
adequate for more pedestrian-like operation & therefore many
will not agree at all.
Hopefully one day Elecraft will come up with a product that is
something like an all solid-state kit form of a modernized
TS-820, provided it has decent IF filters or chance to put
something better (preferably plural) in that would make it
possible to not need VBT.
73, VU/VR2BrettGraham
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