Re: [Elecraft] The KX3 as a shortwave broadcast receiver

[Mike Morrow]

Jim wrote:

> If you're backpacking in the boonies and want to listen to AM radio with 
> your KX3, fine. But the Tecsun is a really good FM RX, which almost 
> certainly provides better programming options with very little 
> additional weight or cost.

Exactly.  The PL-380 is very small...a negligible increase in carry
weight and bulk, even when backpacking with a ham QRP rig.  For even
better AM reception than the excellent PL-380 presents, the PL-390
has a significantly better (longer) ferrite rod antenna.  Battery
life in these small SDRs is very very good as well.

In the past 34 years, I've never been on any camping, backpacking, or
day hiking trip without carrying an AM/FM radio, even when carrying a
QRP rig...and I never will.  It's especially welcome late at night
on a solitary trip in some wilderness area during the winter off-season.

73,
Mike / KK5F
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Re: [Elecraft] The KX3 as a shortwave broadcast receiver

[Fred Smith]

How well do they transmit for you if needed while serving as a SW Receiver?
I have several Grundig,s and a Sangean excellent radios but cannot serve a
dual purpose or have the receiver of the KX3.


73,
Fred/N0AZZ
K3 Ser # 6730--KX3 # 2573--K2/100 # 6470-KAT100
P3/SVGA--KPA500--KAT500--W2



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On 7/15/2013 6:41 PM, gteague wrote:
> great review! i read most every review and article you post.

Those looking for a broadcast receiver would do well to look at the Tecsun
product line, imported by the same folks who import Kaito. There are a dozen
or so models ranging in cost from about $45 to about $100. 
About half of them are DSP radios using a Silicon Labs chip, and yield
excellent performance on both AM and FM. Most of them cover LW (below the AM
broadcast band), all of them cover "short wave" broadcast bands, and a few
cover the part of the VHF spectrum used by aircraft.  A few models have
detectors for SSB. AM bandwidth is switchable to provide audio bandwidth in
several steps between 1 kHz and 6 kHz.

I have three radios using the Silicon Labs chips -- a $100 Sony
(discontinued, selling for $500 used if you can find them), a Tecsun 380
($45), and an Insignia FM-only HD radio sold by Best Buy ($50). The RF
performance can only be described as amazing.  Here in the Santa Cruz
mountains, I wanted to hear KQED from San Francisco, with a mountain between
us. With a long Yagi pointed at it, KQED was noisy on both my Technics
ST9030 and Carver TX11B, but nearly full quieting on all three DSP radios.
More impressive, the Technics and Carver heard full quieting signals from
1,000 W stations 50 miles away on 91.5 and 91.9, and nothing but noise on
91.7.  All three DSP radios hear a station on 91.7 nearly full quieting from
near San Luis Obispo, and off the back of the Yagi!

The Tecsun and Insignia radios run on AA batteries or a wall wart, can be
connected to an external antenna with a clip lead, and have a headphone
output that can feed a high quality audio system.  .BTW -- I also own three
of the GE Super Radio III, which is one of the best AM broadcast receivers
around. It was designed by a consortium of broadcast engineers in the 70s,
when they were trying to "save AM." It has a 10 kHz notch filter, and the IF
bandwidth is switchable to >20 kHz. It's been out of production since the
marketing turkeys who bought the RCA name bought the division of GE that
made it, but the original GE Super Radio is still around on the auction
sites.

Very thorough engineering reviews (and a lot of other great material) by
Brian Beezley, K6STI, of the Technics, Carver, and Sony receivers can be
found at http://ham-radio.com/k6sti/index.html

73, Jim K9YC
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Re: [Elecraft] The KX3 as a shortwave broadcast receiver

[Jim Brown]

On 7/16/2013 9:41 AM, Mike Morrow wrote:

I haven't been much concerned about the AM broadcast performance of the
KX3.  When a rather small SDR AM/FM broadcast radio like the Tecsun 390 is
available at trivial cost, I don't require a ham rig to attempt to match
it for broadcast reception.


YES. This is the point of my post -- when I can buy a really good AM/M 
RX for $44 and let it live in my living room,  I don't need to spend for 
options to a $900KX3 to get a VERY good AM RX.


If you're backpacking in the boonies and want to listen to AM radio with 
your KX3, fine. But the Tecsun is a really good FM RX, which almost 
certainly provides better programming options with very little 
additional weight or cost.


73, Jim K9YC
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Re: [Elecraft] The KX3 as a shortwave broadcast receiver

[Jim Lowman]

I'd agree with you about the Tecsun radios, Jim.  I bought a PL-660 last 
year, before Christmas.


The only gripes that I have are:

a)  the cheap Chinese batteries that came with it had a short life. I 
topped off the charge after installing the batteries, and the next time 
that I tried to use the radio, they wouldn't take a charge.
b)  no BFO.  I was going to listen to the "Night of Nights" transmission 
Friday night, and I discovered the hard way that it doesn't do CW.  Good 
thing that I had the K3 and KX3!


73 de Jim - AD6CW

On 7/16/2013 7:37 AM, Jim Brown wrote:


Those looking for a broadcast receiver would do well to look at the 
Tecsun product line, imported by the same folks who import Kaito. 
There are a dozen or so models ranging in cost from about $45 to about 
$100. About half of them are DSP radios using a Silicon Labs chip, and 
yield excellent performance on both AM and FM. Most of them cover LW 
(below the AM broadcast band), all of them cover "short wave" 
broadcast bands, and a few cover the part of the VHF spectrum used by 
aircraft.  A few models have detectors for SSB. AM bandwidth is 
switchable to provide audio bandwidth in several steps between 1 kHz 
and 6 kHz.


I have three radios using the Silicon Labs chips -- a $100 Sony 
(discontinued, selling for $500 used if you can find them), a Tecsun 
380 ($45), and an Insignia FM-only HD radio sold by Best Buy ($50). 
The RF performance can only be described as amazing. Here in the Santa 
Cruz mountains, I wanted to hear KQED from San Francisco, with a 
mountain between us. With a long Yagi pointed at it, KQED was noisy on 
both my Technics ST9030 and Carver TX11B, but nearly full quieting on 
all three DSP radios. More impressive, the Technics and Carver heard 
full quieting signals from 1,000 W stations 50 miles away on 91.5 and 
91.9, and nothing but noise on 91.7.  All three DSP radios hear a 
station on 91.7 nearly full quieting from near San Luis Obispo, and 
off the back of the Yagi!


The Tecsun and Insignia radios run on AA batteries or a wall wart, can 
be connected to an external antenna with a clip lead, and have a 
headphone output that can feed a high quality audio system. .BTW -- I 
also own three of the GE Super Radio III, which is one of the best AM 
broadcast receivers around. It was designed by a consortium of 
broadcast engineers in the 70s, when they were trying to "save AM." It 
has a 10 kHz notch filter, and the IF bandwidth is switchable to >20 
kHz. It's been out of production since the marketing turkeys who 
bought the RCA name bought the division of GE that made it, but the 
original GE Super Radio is still around on the auction sites.


Very thorough engineering reviews (and a lot of other great material)  
by Brian Beezley, K6STI, of the Technics, Carver, and Sony receivers 
can be found at http://ham-radio.com/k6sti/index.html


73, Jim K9YC


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Re: [Elecraft] The KX3 as a shortwave broadcast receiver

[Mike Morrow]

Jim wrote:

> Those looking for a broadcast receiver would do well to look at the 
> Tecsun product line... 
> About half of them are DSP radios using a Silicon Labs chip, and yield 
> excellent performance on both AM and FM. Most of them cover LW (below 
> the AM broadcast band), all of them cover "short wave" broadcast bands, 
> ...AM bandwidth is switchable to provide audio bandwidth in several
> steps between 1 kHz and 6 kHz.
>
> I have three radios using the Silicon Labs chips -- ... a Tecsun 380 
> ...The RF performance can only be described as amazing.

I agree.  I expected only passable performance...but AM and FM broadcast
band performance is better than anything I've used in 45 years as an
avid AM listener (and FM is equally impressive).

The 390 is noticeably better than the 380 on AM.  It is a wider radio
than the 380, so it has room for a significantly longer ferrite rod
antenna.  It also has FM stereo and a very handy line-in jack, both
of which the 380 lacks.

> The Tecsun ... radios run on AA batteries or a wall wart...

I found it better to use NiMH rechargeable batteries and take advantage
of the built-in recharge-from-USB circuitry.  The radio allows one to
specify that NiMH cells are installed instead of normal AA-cells.

The 390 comes with a case with bottom pocket to store: (1) Stereo ear buds,
(2) USB charging cable, (3) Clip-on wire antenna, (4) 3.5mm stereo cable
to connect an external AF device to the 390's line-in jack (Great for
using with an MP3 player).

> I also own three of the GE Super Radio III, which is one of the best AM 
> broadcast receivers around.

I have an *original* Super Radio (not model II or III), plus a model III.
My original model always performed much much better than the III, but the
model III had a terrible history of significant QA problems.  All are very
large portable radios by modern standards.  My small Tecsun 380 and 390
grossly outperform these old units.  

I haven't been much concerned about the AM broadcast performance of the
KX3.  When a rather small SDR AM/FM broadcast radio like the Tecsun 390 is
available at trivial cost, I don't require a ham rig to attempt to match
it for broadcast reception.

There are now many SDR radios available for give-away prices that have
outstanding performance, ranging from these Tecsun BCB receivers to the
Baofeng micro-size VHF/UHF HTs.  Both are useful SDR-technology radios
to supplement the SDR KX3.

73,
Mike / KK5F
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Re: [Elecraft] The KX3 as a shortwave broadcast receiver

[Jim Brown]

On 7/15/2013 6:41 PM, gteague wrote:

great review! i read most every review and article you post.


Those looking for a broadcast receiver would do well to look at the 
Tecsun product line, imported by the same folks who import Kaito. There 
are a dozen or so models ranging in cost from about $45 to about $100. 
About half of them are DSP radios using a Silicon Labs chip, and yield 
excellent performance on both AM and FM. Most of them cover LW (below 
the AM broadcast band), all of them cover "short wave" broadcast bands, 
and a few cover the part of the VHF spectrum used by aircraft.  A few 
models have detectors for SSB. AM bandwidth is switchable to provide 
audio bandwidth in several steps between 1 kHz and 6 kHz.


I have three radios using the Silicon Labs chips -- a $100 Sony 
(discontinued, selling for $500 used if you can find them), a Tecsun 380 
($45), and an Insignia FM-only HD radio sold by Best Buy ($50). The RF 
performance can only be described as amazing.  Here in the Santa Cruz 
mountains, I wanted to hear KQED from San Francisco, with a mountain 
between us. With a long Yagi pointed at it, KQED was noisy on both my 
Technics ST9030 and Carver TX11B, but nearly full quieting on all three 
DSP radios. More impressive, the Technics and Carver heard full quieting 
signals from 1,000 W stations 50 miles away on 91.5 and 91.9, and 
nothing but noise on 91.7.  All three DSP radios hear a station on 91.7 
nearly full quieting from near San Luis Obispo, and off the back of the 
Yagi!


The Tecsun and Insignia radios run on AA batteries or a wall wart, can 
be connected to an external antenna with a clip lead, and have a 
headphone output that can feed a high quality audio system.  .BTW -- I 
also own three of the GE Super Radio III, which is one of the best AM 
broadcast receivers around. It was designed by a consortium of broadcast 
engineers in the 70s, when they were trying to "save AM." It has a 10 
kHz notch filter, and the IF bandwidth is switchable to >20 kHz. It's 
been out of production since the marketing turkeys who bought the RCA 
name bought the division of GE that made it, but the original GE Super 
Radio is still around on the auction sites.


Very thorough engineering reviews (and a lot of other great material)  
by Brian Beezley, K6STI, of the Technics, Carver, and Sony receivers can 
be found at http://ham-radio.com/k6sti/index.html


73, Jim K9YC
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Re: [Elecraft] The KX3 as a shortwave broadcast receiver

[Fred Smith]

Most people when operating portable use a small external 7-10ah battery to
power everything the 9v makes little difference and IMHO not needed. Here I
have a KX3/Griffin iMike/iPad + 10ah battery = quite a few hours of
operation even at 10w with logging/spotting program/Panadapter almost like
being at home.


73,
Fred/N0AZZ
K3 Ser # 6730--KX3 # 2573--K2/100 # 6470-KAT100
P3/SVGA--KPA500--KAT500--W2




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i sent the guy like 3 emails asking why in the heck he eliminated the
battery from the piglet when he discontinued the pigtail. but i went ahead
and ordered the piglet and his serial cable as well despite grave misgivings
about how i'm going to power the damm thing--what was just posted here is
the sum total of my knowledge of those anderson posts--first i've ever heard
of them.

why would you yank a perfectly good 9v battery out of a device designed from
the ground up to accompany a battery powered radio and battery powered ios
devices and leave the user to carry yet another device around just to power
the interface? hopefully he'll ignore or forgive my sarcasm and tell me what
the solution is to allow for portable operation without carrying an outboard
battery with tangling wire dangling. it's a complete mystery to me.

/guy (73 de kg5vt)


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Stephen G4SJP [via Elecraft] <
ml-node+s365791n7576777...@n2.nabble.com> wrote:

> Guy,
>
> I use the iPad and pigtail and it's great. I cannot recommend it too 
> highly.
>
> 73 Stephen G4SJP
>
>
>
> Full of typos from my iPhone
>
>
> On 16 Jul 2013, at 11:04, gteague <[hidden 
> email]<http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=7576777&i=0>>
> wrote:
>
> > hi fred:
> >
> > yeah, i saw a youtube video of someone connecting to an ipad and i 
> > plan
> to
> > do that--i have all the materials except i might have to get another
> griffin
> > imic--i haven't used mine in years and have misplaced it. i did find
> some
> > free ios sdr apps and have installed those.
> >
> > but i still want to connect via computer and since i posted i've 
> > found a
> guy
> > online that has mac native software with ios versions (hamlog) and 
> > also sells a connection device that creates a wireless network so 
> > that
> anything
> > you can get onto that wifi network can control your rig called 'pigtail'
> or
> > 'piglet'.
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > /guy (73 de kg5vt)
> >
> >
> > Fred Smith wrote
> >> Guy
> >>
> >> Please go into the archives and do some reading about connecting 
> >> the
> KX3
> >> to
> >> an iPad I do this and its "GREAT". Just using the free programs out
> there
> >> much less those from the store apps.
> >>
> >>
> >> 73,
> >> Fred/N0AZZ
> >> K3 Ser # 6730--KX3 # 2573--K2/100 # 6470-KAT100
> >> P3/SVGA--KPA500--KAT500--W2
> >
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Re: [Elecraft] The KX3 as a shortwave broadcast receiver

[gteague]

i sent the guy like 3 emails asking why in the heck he eliminated the
battery from the piglet when he discontinued the pigtail. but i went ahead
and ordered the piglet and his serial cable as well despite grave
misgivings about how i'm going to power the damm thing--what was just
posted here is the sum total of my knowledge of those anderson posts--first
i've ever heard of them.

why would you yank a perfectly good 9v battery out of a device designed
from the ground up to accompany a battery powered radio and battery powered
ios devices and leave the user to carry yet another device around just to
power the interface? hopefully he'll ignore or forgive my sarcasm and tell
me what the solution is to allow for portable operation without carrying an
outboard battery with tangling wire dangling. it's a complete mystery to me.

/guy (73 de kg5vt)


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Stephen G4SJP [via Elecraft] <
ml-node+s365791n7576777...@n2.nabble.com> wrote:

> Guy,
>
> I use the iPad and pigtail and it's great. I cannot recommend it too
> highly.
>
> 73 Stephen G4SJP
>
>
>
> Full of typos from my iPhone
>
>
> On 16 Jul 2013, at 11:04, gteague <[hidden 
> email]>
> wrote:
>
> > hi fred:
> >
> > yeah, i saw a youtube video of someone connecting to an ipad and i plan
> to
> > do that--i have all the materials except i might have to get another
> griffin
> > imic--i haven't used mine in years and have misplaced it. i did find
> some
> > free ios sdr apps and have installed those.
> >
> > but i still want to connect via computer and since i posted i've found a
> guy
> > online that has mac native software with ios versions (hamlog) and also
> > sells a connection device that creates a wireless network so that
> anything
> > you can get onto that wifi network can control your rig called 'pigtail'
> or
> > 'piglet'.
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > /guy (73 de kg5vt)
> >
> >
> > Fred Smith wrote
> >> Guy
> >>
> >> Please go into the archives and do some reading about connecting the
> KX3
> >> to
> >> an iPad I do this and its "GREAT". Just using the free programs out
> there
> >> much less those from the store apps.
> >>
> >>
> >> 73,
> >> Fred/N0AZZ
> >> K3 Ser # 6730--KX3 # 2573--K2/100 # 6470-KAT100
> >> P3/SVGA--KPA500--KAT500--W2
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Re: [Elecraft] The KX3 as a shortwave broadcast receiver

[Stephen Prior]

Guy,

I use the iPad and pigtail and it's great. I cannot recommend it too highly. 

73 Stephen G4SJP



Full of typos from my iPhone


On 16 Jul 2013, at 11:04, gteague  wrote:

> hi fred:
> 
> yeah, i saw a youtube video of someone connecting to an ipad and i plan to
> do that--i have all the materials except i might have to get another griffin
> imic--i haven't used mine in years and have misplaced it. i did find some
> free ios sdr apps and have installed those.
> 
> but i still want to connect via computer and since i posted i've found a guy
> online that has mac native software with ios versions (hamlog) and also
> sells a connection device that creates a wireless network so that anything
> you can get onto that wifi network can control your rig called 'pigtail' or
> 'piglet'.
> 
> thanks!
> 
> /guy (73 de kg5vt)
> 
> 
> Fred Smith wrote
>> Guy
>> 
>> Please go into the archives and do some reading about connecting the KX3
>> to
>> an iPad I do this and its "GREAT". Just using the free programs out there
>> much less those from the store apps.
>> 
>> 
>> 73,
>> Fred/N0AZZ
>> K3 Ser # 6730--KX3 # 2573--K2/100 # 6470-KAT100
>> P3/SVGA--KPA500--KAT500--W2
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Re: [Elecraft] The KX3 as a shortwave broadcast receiver

[gteague]

hi fred:

yeah, i saw a youtube video of someone connecting to an ipad and i plan to
do that--i have all the materials except i might have to get another griffin
imic--i haven't used mine in years and have misplaced it. i did find some
free ios sdr apps and have installed those.

but i still want to connect via computer and since i posted i've found a guy
online that has mac native software with ios versions (hamlog) and also
sells a connection device that creates a wireless network so that anything
you can get onto that wifi network can control your rig called 'pigtail' or
'piglet'.

thanks!

/guy (73 de kg5vt)


Fred Smith wrote
> Guy
> 
> Please go into the archives and do some reading about connecting the KX3
> to
> an iPad I do this and its "GREAT". Just using the free programs out there
> much less those from the store apps.
> 
> 
> 73,
> Fred/N0AZZ
> K3 Ser # 6730--KX3 # 2573--K2/100 # 6470-KAT100
> P3/SVGA--KPA500--KAT500--W2





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Re: [Elecraft] The KX3 as a shortwave broadcast receiver

[Fred Smith]

Guy

Please go into the archives and do some reading about connecting the KX3 to
an iPad I do this and its "GREAT". Just using the free programs out there
much less those from the store apps.


73,
Fred/N0AZZ
K3 Ser # 6730--KX3 # 2573--K2/100 # 6470-KAT100
P3/SVGA--KPA500--KAT500--W2




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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] The KX3 as a shortwave broadcast receiver

great review! i read most every review and article you post.

i ordered the kx3 mostly because of your review and partly because i'd been
looking for a self-contained radio of adequate quality for several years.
the price takes your breath (or at least my breath) away but i wanted to
make sure i got all the accessories and options i'd need in case some went
suddenly out of stock.

i'm seriously disappointed that this isn't really what my definition of an
'sdr' radio consists of, i.e., one that uses only a single usb cable for
programming, control, and  power. i blew a couple hundred bucks trying to
get an icom ic-r20 to accept its computer overlord and that was an exercise
in frustration with cobbled together and custom made cables and interface
boxes and it was just a nightmare. and even when i did get the radio
connected, it was barely functional. it is far easier for me to look up a sw
sked on my iphone and type the freq out on the keyboard than to get the sdr
app to do it.

anyway, even if i can't get the kx3 working the way 'real' sdr radios such
as the bonito radiojet do, at least i can know that i can carry it away from
my computer with a portable antenna and be fully functional with a receiver
every bit as good.

tks again for the review. keep up the good work.

/guy (73 de kg5vt)



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Re: [Elecraft] The KX3 as a shortwave broadcast receiver

[gteague]

great review! i read most every review and article you post.

i ordered the kx3 mostly because of your review and partly because i'd been
looking for a self-contained radio of adequate quality for several years.
the price takes your breath (or at least my breath) away but i wanted to
make sure i got all the accessories and options i'd need in case some went
suddenly out of stock.

i'm seriously disappointed that this isn't really what my definition of an
'sdr' radio consists of, i.e., one that uses only a single usb cable for
programming, control, and  power. i blew a couple hundred bucks trying to
get an icom ic-r20 to accept its computer overlord and that was an exercise
in frustration with cobbled together and custom made cables and interface
boxes and it was just a nightmare. and even when i did get the radio
connected, it was barely functional. it is far easier for me to look up a sw
sked on my iphone and type the freq out on the keyboard than to get the sdr
app to do it.

anyway, even if i can't get the kx3 working the way 'real' sdr radios such
as the bonito radiojet do, at least i can know that i can carry it away from
my computer with a portable antenna and be fully functional with a receiver
every bit as good.

tks again for the review. keep up the good work.

/guy (73 de kg5vt)



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Re: [Elecraft] The KX3 as a shortwave broadcast receiver

[Ralf Wilhelm]

Hi Tom,

I just read and like your review. 
I don't know for sure, but my understanding is that the "4.2 kHz" filter 
actually corresponds to a conventional 8 KHz filter. My understanding is that 
all signals between "carrier frequency minus 4.2 kHz" and "carrier frequency 
plus 4.2 kHz" are demodulated, thus the receiver should sound like an analog 
receiver with a 8kHz filter. 

Vy 73

Ralf, DL6OAP



Am 14.07.2013 um 20:57 schrieb Tom Witherspoon :

> Hi, Group,
> 
> Those of you who enjoy SWLing and have considered purchasing the KX3 might
> want to check out my review of the KX3 as a SW receiver (spoiler: I like
> it!):
> 
> http://swling.com/blog/2013/07/a-review-of-the-elecraft-kx3-a-world-class-transceiver-superb-shortwave-receiver/
> 
> 72,
> Thomas
> K4SWL
> 
> http://QRPer.com
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[Elecraft] The KX3 as a shortwave broadcast receiver

[Tom Witherspoon]

Hi, Group,

Those of you who enjoy SWLing and have considered purchasing the KX3 might
want to check out my review of the KX3 as a SW receiver (spoiler: I like
it!):

http://swling.com/blog/2013/07/a-review-of-the-elecraft-kx3-a-world-class-transceiver-superb-shortwave-receiver/

72,
Thomas
K4SWL

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