Actually, Guy, highly respected DXer that he is, is not the only one of the
serious DXer's who have found that the Ten Tec RX-340 does not come up with
the cookies when the DXing gets tough.
I have seen at least two other serious DXers in Europe who did evaluations
of the Ten Tec RX-340 comment that it does not cut the cake when things get
serious.

On another tack, I can confirm that in my use of the Icom 756 PRO III, it
does not have synchronous detection and that the AM audio definitely breaks
up as a result of this shortcoming - putting the RX in ECSS mode for AM
reception does improve matters, however it comes nowhere near the Drake
R8B's performance of superb AM broadcast band reception when its in "sync"
mode.

In another forum Bjarne Mjelde wrote on 050105:
"One thing that is interesting to note is that the 756Pro series do
not use AM Sync Detector, while the 746Pro (which is identical, RF
and IF wise), do. My experience with the 746Pro is that AM quality
is excellent. For those who care more about AM quality than fancy
displays (one would be better off with a spectrum analyser anyway),
the 746Pro would be the one to choose. And it is considerably
cheaper too..."

Bjarne
www.kongsfjord.no

Happy DXing!
--
John Plimmer, Montagu, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Icom IC-756 PRO III with MW mods
RX Drake R8B, SW8 & ERGO software
Antenna's RF Systems DX 1 Pro, Datong AD-270
Kiwa MW Loop

"Eric F. Richards" wrote:

"Brian Denley" wrote:

Guy Atkins wrote:
I've had a Ten-Tec RX340 in the shack for a month, and it
performed significantly worse on tough DX than my modded R-75 and
the
RA6790GM I used to have.

Guy Atkins
Puyallup, WA USA

Any RX-340 that gets outperformed by a R75 needs to be taken to the
shop.

I would tend to agree, unless his definition of "tough DX" is
extremely narrow.

I'm fairly certain that Guy knows what 'tough DX' is...

He's a 'dxAce' also!

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"John Plimmer" wrote:

Actually, Guy, highly respected DXer that he is, is not the only one of the
serious DXer's who have found that the Ten Tec RX-340 does not come up with
the cookies when the DXing gets tough.
I have seen at least two other serious DXers in Europe who did evaluations
of the Ten Tec RX-340 comment that it does not cut the cake when things get
serious.


Okay, fine, but what do "come up with the cookies" and "cut the cake"
*mean*? What, specifically, did they find that fell flat? There are
things I can think of that it could do better, but they fall into the
"annoyance" range rather than the "just not worth it" range.

--
Eric F. Richards,
"Nature abhors a vacuum tube." -- Myron Glass,
often attributed to J. R. Pierce, Bell Labs, c. 1940

Eric, if you look in the latest 2005 Passport you will see that the IP3 @ 5
Khz rating for the RX-340 is poor - this means that if you are DXing in MW
or Tropical Bands with a strong station near your weaker target station,
then the RX-340 can't resolve it, whereas various other radio's that have a
much more respectable IP3 @ 5 Khz performance, like the AOR 7030, Drake R8B
and Icom 75 will be able to resolve the weak signal whereas the RX-340 will
not be able to do so.

Close in DXing with nearby strong signals is a feature of trying to get weak
stations that are 5 Khz or nearer to other more powerful signals.
Several DXer's have indicated that Passports numbers/statistics are correct
and that the RX-340 cannot render audible signals that are close by to more
powerful stations.

The Icom 756 PRO III is superb in this respect as I have indicated in my
comparison review
--
John Plimmer, Montagu, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Icom IC-756 PRO III with MW mods
RX Drake R8B, SW8 & ERGO software
Antenna's RF Systems DX 1 Pro, Datong AD-270
Kiwa MW Loop

"Eric F. Richards" wrote in message
...
"John Plimmer" wrote:

Actually, Guy, highly respected DXer that he is, is not the only one of
the
serious DXer's who have found that the Ten Tec RX-340 does not come up
with
the cookies when the DXing gets tough.
I have seen at least two other serious DXers in Europe who did
evaluations
of the Ten Tec RX-340 comment that it does not cut the cake when things
get
serious.


Okay, fine, but what do "come up with the cookies" and "cut the cake"
*mean*? What, specifically, did they find that fell flat? There are
things I can think of that it could do better, but they fall into the
"annoyance" range rather than the "just not worth it" range.

--
Eric F. Richards,
"Nature abhors a vacuum tube." -- Myron Glass,
often attributed to J. R. Pierce, Bell Labs, c. 1940