I wonder why the Ranger would be among the best stock audio and the Valiant among the worst? Same maker, same vintage, etc.
73 de W3NU Larry Szendrei wrote: > Concerning the discussion of audio modifications to commercially designed > amateur AM transmitters: > > A lot of these rigs from the 1950s (Viking I, Viking II, Valiant, DX-100) > did, in fact have pretty nasty audio in their stock state, and there are > good reasons to go in and engineer improvements in that department - and > there are many "low-hanging fruit." > > Granted, modifications made by hams will cover the spectrum from > worse-than-stock to an "extreme make-over" in the positive direction. So > will their physical implementation. > > (From what I've heard and had experience with, the Collins 32V-* series, > and the Johnson Viking Ranger, are among the best-sounding in stock form > of this generation of gear.) > ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
