You said it, Garey. What a terrible idea. It's a waste of a radio, time, manpower, and money.
Lee, w0vt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garey Barrell" <[email protected]> To: "Drakelist" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 4:19:20 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [Drakelist] Article in April 2009 QST Personal opinion follows....... In a word, YUK! It's like jacking up a Jeep and putting a Corvette engine, transmission and wheels under it. What you end up with is neither a Jeep nor a Corvette, but a collection of parts. Much better to sell the TR-7, take the money you'd spend on the "improvements", and buy a new YaeComWood. 73, Garey - K4OAH Glen Allen, VA Drake 2-B, 4-B, C-Line & TR-4/C Service Supplement CDs <www.k4oah.com> DW Holtman wrote: > Hello, > > Did anyone read the article on modernizing a TR-7 by DK4DDS. It has > information on adding a ton of features, such as DSP Noise reduction, > curing the PTO Drift, Notch Filter, Improving the sensevity on the > higher bands, Speech Processor and a bunch of others. It is some great > food for thought, for bringing a great radio into the 21st Century. > > Great Stuff. I'm thinking very hard about trying most of them out. > Most of them do not require modifing the original Circuit boards, just > adding boards. If anybody had some comments/information on these mods, > I sure would be interested. > > Best, > DW Holtman > WB7SSN > > _______________________________________________ Drakelist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist _______________________________________________ Drakelist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist
