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new kenwood?
Noon-Air wrote:
Whatever happenet to a simple to operate 100watt HF rig that transmits and recieves??... something in the way of an inexpensive, baseline, HAM band *only* rig... maybe along the lines of the re-production of the TS-130S. The Icom IC718 can be bought new from AES for $549. It's a pretty basic radio with not very many buttons. The Alinco DX77T is about $150.00 more. - 73 de Mike KB3EIA - |
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new kenwood?
Dave Platt wrote:
It'd be interesting to see sorts of HF rigs might be build around a modulator based on some of today's cellphone chip cores and IP... direct conversion, high-performance I/Q phasing modulators, and so forth. More work up front, but (potentially) a lot lower per-unit incremental cost once you get into volume production. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that the size of the market would justify the investment, needed to create the sort of radio which you feel could help maintain and increase the size of the amateur-radio market in the way that you'd like :-( Bingo! If I want a basic radio, I can go to a flea market and pick up some nice simple stuff. When I buy a new radio, I want features and good ergonomics to go along with them. That is what the market has turned into. At Dayton last year, I picked up a 80 and 40 meter version of the Single Sidebanders for 20 bucks for one, and 25 for the other. Both worked fine. Just about any kid would have the money for that. Wasn't State of the art, but 200 watts on SSB, and a cheap wire antenna can get a person on the air CHEAP! - 73 de Mike KB3EIA - |
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new kenwood?hijacked
my original therad was totally hi jacked
a topic of , how to get a simple /cheep hf rig is completely different and should be a completely new topic it's interesting topic but needs a new thread thanks to the single person who offered a heads up saying that kenwood was going to perhaps a d star i wonder if anyone has any links to any preview shots of it or spec page?? tnx In article , rocky wrote: In article , "Noon-Air" wrote: |
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"Noon-Air" wrote in message ... Whatever happenet to a simple to operate 100watt HF rig that transmits and recieves??... something in the way of an inexpensive, baseline, HAM band *only* rig... maybe along the lines of the re-production of the TS-130S. -n6ojn In a nutshell it boils down to demand. Do you still drive a non-air conditioned, stickshift, non power steering, non power brake car? Right. Few other people do, either! If you had a choice for driving a 100 mile trip which would you choose, a 2006 Impala or a 1931 Model A Ford? Not trying to be a smart aleck, but it answers the question! People just don't want that anymore. Same applies to ham radios. I MUCH prefer my IC-706 MKIIG's to the old 85 lb transmitters and receivers of yore! Best 74 Jerry K4KWH "Hamguy" wrote in message ... It's going to be a model that has 'D-Star' capability, like some of the Icoms do. "ml" wrote in message ... i heard there might be a new kenwood rig out soon prob unv at dayton anyone have any skuttlebut on it or any links ? tnx |
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Wow that hit the mark Jerry
I might add if you want a TS-130S kind radio -- buy a used one, have it restored if need be. My experience with Hams is the young ones (computer savvy) have no problem with programming and menus, but lots of old timers seem to. -- CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be ! "Jerry" wrote in message ... "Noon-Air" wrote in message ... Whatever happenet to a simple to operate 100watt HF rig that transmits and recieves??... something in the way of an inexpensive, baseline, HAM band *only* rig... maybe along the lines of the re-production of the TS-130S. -n6ojn In a nutshell it boils down to demand. Do you still drive a non-air conditioned, stickshift, non power steering, non power brake car? Right. Few other people do, either! If you had a choice for driving a 100 mile trip which would you choose, a 2006 Impala or a 1931 Model A Ford? Not trying to be a smart aleck, but it answers the question! People just don't want that anymore. Same applies to ham radios. I MUCH prefer my IC-706 MKIIG's to the old 85 lb transmitters and receivers of yore! Best 74 Jerry K4KWH "Hamguy" wrote in message ... It's going to be a model that has 'D-Star' capability, like some of the Icoms do. "ml" wrote in message ... i heard there might be a new kenwood rig out soon prob unv at dayton anyone have any skuttlebut on it or any links ? tnx |
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:15:29 -0500, "Jerry"
wrote: "Noon-Air" wrote in message ... Whatever happenet to a simple to operate 100watt HF rig that transmits and recieves??... something in the way of an inexpensive, baseline, HAM band *only* rig... maybe along the lines of the re-production of the TS-130S. -n6ojn In a nutshell it boils down to demand. Do you still drive a non-air conditioned, stickshift, non power steering, non power brake car? Right. Few other people do, either! If you had a choice for driving a 100 mile trip which would you choose, a 2006 Impala or a 1931 Model A Ford? Not trying to be a smart aleck, but it answers the question! People just don't want that anymore. Same applies to ham radios. I MUCH prefer my IC-706 MKIIG's to the old 85 lb transmitters and receivers of yore! Best 74 Jerry K4KWH Yes, but he has a point. Our cars have had those features since the fifties. Ham radio on the other hand, has gone crazy with the bells and whistles since that time. Just look at radios like the Icom 7800 and the Yaesu FT DX 9000MP ($12,000 for crying out loud.) I'll bet people who owns these things don't use half the knobs and buttons. The owner of a new Impala would probably use everything on the car. Dick - W6CCD |
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:57:13 -0700, Dick LeadWinger wrote:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:15:29 -0500, "Jerry" wrote: "Noon-Air" wrote in message ... Whatever happenet to a simple to operate 100watt HF rig that transmits and recieves??... something in the way of an inexpensive, baseline, HAM band *only* rig... maybe along the lines of the re-production of the TS-130S. -n6ojn In a nutshell it boils down to demand. Do you still drive a non-air conditioned, stickshift, non power steering, non power brake car? Right. Few other people do, either! If you had a choice for driving a 100 mile trip which would you choose, a 2006 Impala or a 1931 Model A Ford? Not trying to be a smart aleck, but it answers the question! People just don't want that anymore. Same applies to ham radios. I MUCH prefer my IC-706 MKIIG's to the old 85 lb transmitters and receivers of yore! Best 74 Jerry K4KWH Yes, but he has a point. Our cars have had those features since the fifties. Ham radio on the other hand, has gone crazy with the bells and whistles since that time. Just look at radios like the Icom 7800 and the Yaesu FT DX 9000MP ($12,000 for crying out loud.) I'll bet people who owns these things don't use half the knobs and buttons. The owner of a new Impala would probably use everything on the car. Dick - W6CCD I was sitting on the phone at Icom when the original 706 did not receive the weather channel very well. I can tell you the hams would not have it that way. I can remember hearing over and over an amateur transceiver that works in the 2 meter VHF range just has to be able to reveice the weather channel otherwise it was useless. Take the W32A, receives the weather channel like gang busters on the supplied rubber duck, it was done by design. Someone came up with a as I remember the " Yellow " wire mod for the original 706. That mod actually enabled the 2 meter bandpass filter when tuning above 148 MHz where it was turned off stock form the factory. Seems today's amateurs want a amateur transceiver and one that has a wide receive too. I have often wondered how many rigs would be sold if one could not alter the transmit range. Both seem to be pretty standard on the check lists when purchasing a new rig. I purchased a brand new IC-730 in 1982 at Dayton. Then I longed for shortwave coverage and 10 FM. I did find an aftermarket FM board for it from a person at Dayton the next year or two It worked great. So with a quadruple conversion receiver I was not real happy as I could not tune the shortwave bands. I now have an IC-718 and hardly ever tune outside of the ham bands now that I can. I agree if the companies could build a nice helical filtered ham band only front ends the overload and adjcent channel complaints would go away mostly. Its an interesting hobby and also to listen what users seem to want in a radio. Thanks for the memories. Gary K8IZ |
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