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What feature that is found on most of the modern transceivers ( say in the last 15 - 20 years ) could you hardly survive without ?
Would it be the AUTOMATIC ANTENNA TUNERS, the DSP systems . the ability to REMOTE MOUNT your dual band mobile rig and put the faceplate on the dash without a bulky radio behind it , or something else that you have on your rig ( fairly recent model ) that you wind uop using a lot more than you originally expected to....or the main reason you got a particular rig was becasue it HAS this feature.
ME ? I would say the AUTOMATIC ANTENNA TUNER, for obvious reasons.
What is your opinion from your personal experience through the years ?? 
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Quote[/b] (ai4ep @ Dec. 12 2007,20:57)]What feature that is found on most of the modern transceivers ( say in the last 15 - 20 years ) could you hardly survive without ?
Would it be the AUTOMATIC ANTENNA TUNERS, the DSP systems . the ability to REMOTE MOUNT your dual band mobile rig and put the faceplate on the dash without a bulky radio behind it , or something else that you have on your rig ( fairly recent model ) that you wind uop using a lot more than you originally expected to....or the main reason you got a particular rig was becasue it HAS this feature.
ME ? I would say the AUTOMATIC ANTENNA TUNER, for obvious reasons.
What is your opinion from your personal experience through the years ??
Aside from the obvious such as mode selection, VFO and AF volume - the DSP filters...
Can live without them with a bank of mechanical/passive filters (agghhh...remember the crystal phasing on an SX-42A) but the filter button here is pretty shiny due to wear....
73,
Bill N9DSJ
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I can tell you one. #Except this is one I don't know how I lived without.
My new FT-2000 has what is called a CONTOUR adjustment that is part of the DSP. #Every radio should have it! #
It brings CW signals up, it eliminates qrm, it nulls noise, it makes SSB and AM sound better. #I love that knob!
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Dave
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Passband tuning, and the ability to select filters independently of mode.
Between three of my Drake receivers, there are 8-6-4-2.3-1.8-1-0.5-0.3 KHz bandwidths to choose from...and I am looking at getting a pair of 3 KHz filters from Sherwood Engineering. One for a TR7 and one for an R7...a simple mod to the TR7's main board and I can select the 3.0 KHz filter for SSB transmit, giving me ESSB capability when desired.
Infinitely variable AGC is nice, too.
The AR15/M16 - Irritating practically everyone since 1960...
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RIT with CW.
Not in the radio, Radio Shack DSP-40, is a *great* filter for CW!!!
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the DSP and the mh59 remote control mic on my 857d
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73, Ryan
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well its not on my radio currently.. but the next I'd definitely like an automatic antenna tuner, thats for sure.
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none of them
15 to 20 years
my modern FT-102
with outboard vfo is over 30 years old
most of the time find myself
running hb junk
and 40 to 70 year old receivers
funny how on a good night
bottom of 40 or 80 cw
my 70 year old RME 69
hears everything
the modern rice box rigs do
heck during the cw test
i tuned around bottom of 40
using a 76 year old SW-3 regen set
copied dozens of dx stations
using 15 ft #of wire in the basement for a antenna
new radios can be a pleasure to use
but
they have nothing i can't live without
mac dit dit
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