Exaggerated Claims & BA Rig Deficiencies

[AF6LJ]

Why? Could be good for parts. And what W1FIF did looks pretty interesting.

73 de Jim, N2EY

Actually a DDS vfo would be a nice touch..
But...
I would like to have the DDS with an analogue dial, which means the DDS support circuity would have to remember where it was when the power was turned off and know where it is when the power was turned back on just in case someone turned the knob when the juice was off.

[WB2WIK]

Use what you revere.

For the 75m AMI nets I still use my homebrew rig I built in the 60s which still works. It doesn't sound better than my Ten Tecs do on AM (they sound awesome) but it makes me feel good.

[N2EY]

I wouldn't ever pay for an Eico 753, not even if I won the lottery, I would take one only if nobody was looking.

This reminds me of the time a ham I knew had an Eico 753 on his hamfest table for sale. He made the mistake of going for a cup of coffee without locking the rig in his car. Sure enough, even though he was only gone a minute, when he got back there were two 753s on his table.

73 de Jim, N2EY

[N2EY]

You can't soar with eagles when you work with turkeys, either.

Benjamin Franklin wanted the wild turkey rather than the bald eagle as our national symbol. He wrote a letter about it to his daughter in 1784.

73 de Jim, N2EY

[N2EY]

Actually a DDS vfo would be a nice touch..
But...
I would like to have the DDS with an analogue dial, which means the DDS support circuity would have to remember where it was when the power was turned off and know where it is when the power was turned back on just in case someone turned the knob when the juice was off.

Sort of ironic, that is.

I mean, the 753 couldn't even remember what frequency it was on when it was powered up!

73 de Jim, N2EY

[WA6TKD]

This reminds me of the time a ham I knew had an Eico 753 on his hamfest table for sale. He made the mistake of going for a cup of coffee without locking the rig in his car. Sure enough, even though he was only gone a minute, when he got back there were two 753s on his table.

73 de Jim, N2EY

LOL. A lot like: First place prize is a free one week vacation to Cleveland, 2nd place prize is a free two weeks vacation to Cleveland.

[KA5S]

...Then came rigs like the Kenwood TS-520 and TS-820 families. Existing US companies couldn't match them. Why somebody didn't make a US version of the TS-520 is a mystery. Kenwood copied the Heath heterodyne scheme, solid-stated the low-level stuff, and put the whole thing in one box. Of course it came with RIT standard, CW filter as option, a nice dial, and lots of options.

As for "killing the US market" - how did TenTec succeed? It started in 1968 as a tiny company selling one- and two-band QRP CW rigs, then expanded into a major player with a pretty good (if limited) line of rigs.

73 de Jim, N2EY

I thought my FPM-300 was pretty good but I had to add RIT to that because of the 1750 Hz CW offset. Did the same to a National 500.

And while I have been impressed by Sevierville's products (Triton II, Corsair II, Paragon, 516, Jupiter and now an Omni V,)I won't have top performance in all respects (spent an hour fiddling with band trimmers last night on the V) until I win the lottery. Suspect the N4PY improvement will have to do for the V.

How did an Atlas stack up for performance per dollar vs a contemporaneous JA?


Cortland
KA5S

[N2EY]

LOL. A lot like: First place prize is a free one week vacation to Cleveland, 2nd place prize is a free two weeks vacation to Cleveland.

Or as I said recently:

"For a dollar I'll sing. For two dollars I won't"

73 de Jim, N2EY

[N2EY]

How did an Atlas stack up for performance per dollar vs a contemporaneous JA?

I dunno - never had one. IIRC, they were primarily SSB rigs, lacking a sharp-filter option.

73 de Jim, N2EY

[N2EY]

LOL. A lot like: First place prize is a free one week vacation to Cleveland, 2nd place prize is a free two weeks vacation to Cleveland.

Goes back at least to the Marx Brothers, who had an exchange something like this:

Chico: For $10 the band will play for two hours. For $20 the band will play for one hour

Groucho: How much if they don't play at all?

Chico: You couldn't afford it

73 de Jim, N2EY