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"Brian Denley" wrote in message ... Lucky wrote: Also, SI has a 60 day return policy at least here in Miami so if I don't like after 2 months, it just goes back. With slectable sideband on it, I can't want to try it. Plus sat radio if you want it one day. Lucky Has anyone ever heard of non-selectable sideband? Yes.... My KA-1102. Non selectable sideband. Michael |
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Brian Denley wrote:
Lucky wrote: Also, SI has a 60 day return policy at least here in Miami so if I don't like after 2 months, it just goes back. With slectable sideband on it, I can't want to try it. Plus sat radio if you want it one day. Lucky Has anyone ever heard of non-selectable sideband? Well, sort of. As I understand it, selectable sideband means that you can select USB or LSB. By that definition, the sideband on some cheapie Chinese radios, such as the Degen 1102, would be nonselectable sideband. The 1102 has a single "SSB" button with a thumbwheel to adjust the BFO. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Actually, an Eton employee has been using one of the new E1's for several weeks now and says it surpasses the Satellit 800. Remember, the new E1 has THREE bandwidths, a FAST/SLOW AGC, selectable sideband sync detection, as well as PASSBAND tuning. So the set is actually somewhere between the Drake SW8 and the Drake R8B. The only main features missing on this portable are a Noise Blanker and extra bandwidth filters for CW reception. It is also missing a ferrit antenna for MW reception but instead uses the whip antenna, as does the Drake SW8. I would have preferred a large ferrit antenna for complete portability rather than have to hook up a loop or other external antenna for MW DXing. This should be (and I am told IS) a killer portable. The reason given to me as to why the delays -- they are working out all quality control issues BEFORE they release any production units for retail as they don't want a repeat of what happened when the Satellit 800 came out. |
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Brian Denley wrote:
Lucky wrote: Also, SI has a 60 day return policy at least here in Miami so if I don't like after 2 months, it just goes back. With slectable sideband on it, I can't want to try it. Plus sat radio if you want it one day. Lucky Has anyone ever heard of non-selectable sideband? I believe SW-8 was so equipped. |
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Over in the Yahoo Eton E1 group, there is a guy who claims to have one
already. Word has it, Sharper Image is the ONLY retailer to have about 30 or so ready for immediate shipment... "Telamon" wrote in message .... In article . com, "mike0219116" wrote: I think it has a chance to be a good radio, especially with Drake's engineering behind it. However, it's ultimate success will depend on whether Tecsun can maintain some semblance of QC. The endless delays probably have more to do with this variable than anything else. Brian Hill wrote: "mike0219116" wrote in message ups.com... Now it's August 5, 2005. http://universal-radio.com/catalog/portable/0101.html That radio I predict will be mediocre at best. -- 73 and good DX. B.H. Brian's Radio Universe http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/500.htm I think not this long. The radio probably has had functional design problems. Maybe feature creep had a play in the delays. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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In article ,
"Brian Denley" wrote: Lucky wrote: Also, SI has a 60 day return policy at least here in Miami so if I don't like after 2 months, it just goes back. With slectable sideband on it, I can't want to try it. Plus sat radio if you want it one day. Lucky Has anyone ever heard of non-selectable sideband? The original Drake R8. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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"mike0219116" wrote in message ups.com... I think it has a chance to be a good radio, especially with Drake's engineering behind it. However, it's ultimate success will depend on whether Tecsun can maintain some semblance of QC. The endless delays probably have more to do with this variable than anything else. Well I hope it works out for them but if it was me, I would have kept my mouth shut until it was done and then I would have marketed it. We'll see. -- 73 and good DX. B.H. Brian's Radio Universe http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/500.htm |
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I went to a local "Sharper Image" store in Avon CT and they haven't heard a
thing about it. I was hoping to sneak in and check it out, but they all looked perplexed or should I say looked perplexed at me like I was nuts the way i went on about it lol. |
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On 23 Jul 2005 10:05:46 -0700, "mike0219116"
wrote: Now it's August 5, 2005. http://universal-radio.com/catalog/portable/0101.html Does this thing only have *one* antenna jack for all three bands? |
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Jim Shaffer wrote: On 23 Jul 2005 10:05:46 -0700, "mike0219116" wrote: Now it's August 5, 2005. http://universal-radio.com/catalog/portable/0101.html Does this thing only have *one* antenna jack for all three bands? Well... under the 'Features' portion of the URL above you might have read the following: "External Antenna Connection for the addition of auxiliary antennas, e.g. professionally engineered shortwave antennas; long-wire shortwave antennas; specialized AM broadcast band antennas for enthusiasts of AM DX’ing; FM broadcast band antennas and XM antenna. " I may be wrong, but one would figure that there would be more than one connection. dxAce Michigan USA http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm |
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