Hi

The FRG-100 is an excellent receiver for the money, even out of the
box. With the addition of the Kiwa filter and audio upgrades, it
becomes a much better receiver. I also have an Icom R71, and the
FRG-100 matches it for performance. It has better sensitivity than the
Icom, but fewer features.

I have also tested it alongside a Kenwood R5000, and again the FRG-100
matched it. Although it doesn't have passband tuning or IF shift,
unlike the R71 or R5000, the adjustable ssb offset feature on the
FRG-100 seemed to work just as well as either of these on SSB.

Cheers

Andy

funkbastler wrote in
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Well, any luck getting it yet? When I order from AES, I live in Pittsburgh,
and AES has a store in Cleveland. 95% of the time, if I order by 5:00 PM
one night, I get the item the next day. It's not express shipping either,
just happens to be in the UPS delivery zone that arrives in Pittsburgh
every night.

Let us know how it works out.

Regards.

Thanks everyone.

Have ordered the R75 - and to keep Maurizio happy,
I'll try not to use the DSP very much ;-)

-fb-





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Nothing is absolute.

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:42:40 -0000, Soliloquy
wrote:

funkbastler wrote in
:


Well, any luck getting it yet? When I order from AES, I live in Pittsburgh,
and AES has a store in Cleveland. 95% of the time, if I order by 5:00 PM
one night, I get the item the next day. It's not express shipping either,
just happens to be in the UPS delivery zone that arrives in Pittsburgh
every night.

Let us know how it works out.


Shipped from Denver on Tuesday, delivered by UPS in McAlester, OK,
(southeast part of the state) on Thursday (note: that's less time
than it takes FedEx to deliver a package, *after* the package has
arrived in town, but that's another story).

Haven't installed the DSP unit yet, and right now it's sitting in
the living room with 10 feet of wire strung across the ceiling for
an antenna. With that little bit of wire, it's fairly deaf - which
is what I'd expect. Plan to use an existing run of coax from the
living room out to the old C-band dish, and put up an inverted vee
out there. First, have to move out the old dish, then have to find
a support high enough, sturdy enough, and cheap enough to support
the antenna (without guying). This is gonna take a few days ;-)

It's already apparent that the AM filter(s) are not sharp enough
to eliminate the splatter from KNED when listening to KFAQ, and
I thought they would be - my old Kenwood TS-940 handles the problem
quite nicely..... may have to build a loop and hook it up to the
second antenna input to take care of that problem.

-fb-

funkbastler wrote in
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On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:42:40 -0000, Soliloquy
wrote:

funkbastler wrote in
m:

Did you try using it in the SSB mode, then rotating the Passband dials
from their normally centered position in either direction? You would need
to rotate both dials the same amount in the same direction, I believe
that the manual says that this is analogous to shifting the IF. You may
be able to shift it far enough to avoid the splatter while still keeping
sufficient clarity.

Regards



It's already apparent that the AM filter(s) are not sharp enough
to eliminate the splatter from KNED when listening to KFAQ, and
I thought they would be - my old Kenwood TS-940 handles the problem
quite nicely..... may have to build a loop and hook it up to the
second antenna input to take care of that problem.

-fb-