RadioBanter - View Single Post - Winradio WR-G303i & Ten Tec RX-320D

January 21st 04, 03:05 AM

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:53:29 GMT, (George Blomfield)
wrote:

Where have we heard "the am synch loses lock" before? :-)

You picked up the only potentially negative point amongst a myriad of
overwhelmingly positive ones. Well please yourself.

But if you owned a G303 as I do, you would know that the AM
demodulator is so good, that there is no need for a synchronous one
anyway. I even wonder why Winradio bothered. You are better off simply
using LSB or USB if one of the side bands or the carrier are damaged.

I hear a bunch of Icom R75 owners out there chuckling.

LSB and USB are always tuned spot-on with the G303, so when you are
tuned to an AM station, switching to LSB or USB does not produce any
of the familiar beat frequency or distortion you would normally expect
to hear on other radios. You simply hear only the selected sideband
with perfect and equivalent audio quality. Now tell me with which of
your receivers you can do that (without the need to adjust the tuning
or the BFO, and without a perceptible difference in audio when you
toggle between LSB and USB).

Caught this on the Yahoo Winradio group-
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WinRadio has just posted a new version of the G303i operating
software. You can now do a frequency calibration for the
radio by tweaking the reference frequency parameter
in the wrg3.ini file.

I successfully used this parameter to eliminate the
small frequency error (5 Hz at 10 Mhz) of my G303i.
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OH,,, gee... it's called "calibration". :-)

The key though is this- no way would I ever want a receiver stuck
inside the noisiest possible environment- a computer!

And with which of your receivers you can also adjust the LSB or USB
filter bandwiths, continuously from 1 Hz to 15 kHz?

Who would want a 15khz filter for SSB?

But I guess you are still not impressed. Well, I surely am... ;-)

George

I dunno George, you sound like a Winradio dealer. :-)

It may be be some of their more expensive external receivers that
go to 4ghz might have some merit but I'd have to see the real specs
and a real review (and those versions cost a bloody fortune.)

Usually, if a receiver is that "hot" we'd have seen real reviews
and everyone would hear how wonderful it is.

I repeat- no one makes a decent affordable receiver that
could be considered state of the art. Not even the TT RX-340
at almost 4 grand. (Never could understand why the RX-340
costs more than their Orion- with 2 rcvrs and a xmtr and much
more in one box!) Their RX-350 is an "image" dog. Never
tried the RX-320 and doubt I ever will.

I keep looking though....

Cheers!