That makes absolutely no sense to me. Can you or anyone else here well versed in radio design please explain to me why the Kenwood engineers would do this?
Tnx, James K2QI ------Original Message------ From: Larry Phipps To: James Sarte Cc: Elecraft Reflector Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: QST's review of the Yaesu FTDX5000MP Sent: Nov 15, 2010 15:50 'Yup, as far as I can tell, and also for any BW on 12, 10 or 6m. Larry N8LP On 11/15/2010 3:33 PM, James Sarte wrote: > This is one thing I don't understand with the TS-590s: > > "For 1.8/3.5/7/14/21MHz amateur bands, when receiving in CW/FSK/SSB > modes down conversion is selected automatically if the final passband > is 2.7kHz or less" > > So does that mean if the passband selected is greater than 2700 Hz, > the receiver switches to upconversion?!? > > James K2QI > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:23 PM, N8LP <n...@telepostinc.com > <mailto:n...@telepostinc.com>> wrote: > > > The panadapter limitations are easily taken care of with a 3rd party > panadapter. FT5K versions are among the top 4 selling versions of > LP-PAN. > They were smart enough to include a built in IF output. More than > I can say > for Kenwood, who not only didn't provide an IF output jack on > their latest > offering, but came up with perhaps the goofiest conversion scheme > I have > seen in a long time. > > Larry N8LP > > > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
