Not sure its just the finals that are responsible, but maybe the analog discrete low gain stuff in the rest of the radio?
I do notice some of the modern radios have a class A setting for the output stages, to clean things up? At $12,000.00 I am not going to get one and find out... Brett N2DTS > As far as amateur communications go I think the quality of the > transmitted audio makes more difference than the quality of the > receiver. Some of the cleanest sounding SSB I have ever heard came > from the Kenwood TS-520 / TS-820 / TS-830 transceivers with their tube > finals. Then solid state PAs came along. I doubt if even the K3 output > stages will have better linearity and IMD than a pair of 6146Bs in > push-pull, but Elecraft is always capable of surprising us. ;) > > -- > Julian, G4ILO K2 s/n: 392 K3 s/n: ??? > G4ILO's Shack: www.g4ilo.com > Ham-Directory: www.ham-directory.com > _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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
