Had my trusty DRAKE TR-7/R7A, 1978 THE DRAKE 7 LINE WAS TOPS The combo transceiver with the rare R7A weighed in about $4000. Everything was optional. I did some side by side performnce checks. The sensitivity issue is very complicated. The tR-7 does not use a pre-amp at all before the mixer. This gives a dissapointing .5uv instead of .15uv the K2 spec. I often bypass the pre-amp to get a drake sound out of the K2. I did pump the RX audio from the K2 into the drakes audio amp and larger speaker. Amazing The 2 RX's had a low noise floor. Do your self a favor. Bypass the 14db rf amp. Then get an amplified speaker(5w AMP..15w SPEAKER) for your K2 at home. With the 1,8khz filter on SSB, you too will have audio of the big rigs. One of the uses I have for my newly odered T1 was to match my K2 rf output at 1 watt. I would then have the TR-7's overbuilt 250W+ input amp, be the '"mouth piece'' The later TR-7's always had two blank RCA connectors, They must have known some ham would put them to use. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
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