-----Original Message----- Jim replies (>) to my original message (>>) ...
>> - Medium size or larger controls. >How big is that? To me, "medium size" means 1" diameter > for most controls and 2-3" for tuning. Yep, sounds sweet to me. > The problem is that there's a conflict between that > and the general coverage/low cost criteria. Well, I don't know enough to discuss this but it sure seems to me that someone could come up with an R-4B style design using modern parts that would be easy to build and pretty cheap. Well, you'd think it would be at least. After all that rig was nothing more than a receiver that could cover a number of 500 KHz bands and it did it pretty well. Today's approach of using synthesizers has its drawbacks. It may give us more bells & whistles (memories, direct freq entry) but it brought a bunch of issues that needed to be solved as well. > Consider a K2 with the transmitter section removed. > You'd save the finals, a mixer, some control circuitry, > and a few other things. But would you save half > the cost of the rig? I doubt it. Agreed, but what if you started with a ... KX1? That rig is already close to what I'm asking for (close enough that maybe it will be my next rig). I'm not looking for K2 contest level performance, just something that can tune around and do an OK job receiving and something that has good sound. Simple is good. >> - Synchronous AGC > ?? What is synchronous AGC? Oops, I meant synchronous AM detection ... >> I guess I'm looking for a modern Drake 2B / R-4B but with full coverage. > Those receivers are really good but they lack many of the above features too. Actually, they have most of what I listed, except for memories and a low price. True they were not general coverage, but with a handful of crystals (remember those :-) you could teach them to cover the bands you were interested in. To me that's good enough. > What about things like a noise blanker, computer control port or DSP? Computer control & DSP? Well, I for one would be very happy to do without those to save some money. Thanks Jim! 73! - Keith KD1E - - K2 5411 - _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
