Don,
I believe it!
The R-4C full Sherwood is not a Ten-Tec Orion II..BUT in most crowded
band situations it will hear as well!
Of course it lacks a lot od bells/whisles...but for pure copy it is
tough to beat even in 2011.
Rob Sherwood is genious and His guy did my R-4C at Rob's shop before I
bought it from a friend. It did not have the SSB roofing filter MOD, so
I did that one myself.
Works very well. I recommed it to anyone who likes the Drakes and wants
more performance. Try to get a used one that is nice as the MODS are
not cheap to have done! If you decide to do them yourelf...well if you
have the talent, no big deal, but they are not triviel.
It's not as harsh as a modern DSP radio to listen to...IMHO anyways.
Of course if I want nice audio to rag chew...the R-4B, Collins KWM-2 or
Halli SX-115 or SX-117 is the ticket.
Sometimes I like to have them all on and just jump back forth to
compare.
73,
Lee
-Original Message-
From: Don Jones k...@comcast.net
To: drakelist drakelist@zerobeat.net
Sent: Mon, Feb 21, 2011 6:23 pm
Subject: Re: [Drakelist] [Drake list] Roofing filter
DITTO!! I could not agree more with this piece of advice. With a tight
front
end and IF strip I have found the need for a noise blanker to be nil
when
using the 600Hz roofing filter's and the 500 or 250 Hz drake cw
filters. For
SSB BW's the need for a noise blanker is nice at times and I do open my
receiver up to the stock BW's in order to get the 4NB to work.
One not for the good of the order - the Sherwood R-4C did outperform
my
OMNI 6 (with a full load of filters and the INRAD roofing filter mod)
in the
pile ups during the recent VP8ORK DX-pedition. We are talking 559 (R-4C)
verses 229 (OMNI 6). No comparison.
Don Jones KO7i
Arlington, WA
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:22:50 -0500 (EST)
From: kc9...@aol.com
To: k4...@mindspring.com, Drakelist@zerobeat.net
Subject: Re: [Drakelist] Roofing filter
Message-ID: 8cd9f8dc0ddfc69-760-4d...@webmail-d112.sysops.aol.com
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The ideal situation IMHO is the Full Sherwood MOD for the R-4C.
It has a switch so I can keep it wide if I want (and use NB), or use
SSB or
CW Roofing filters to keep unwanted adjacent signals from de-sensing
the RX.
It works super!
Almost as well as my Ten-Tec Orion II
73,
Lee, KC9CDT
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