X-GM-THRID: 1247041003639613581 X-Gmail-Labels: rsgb lf Delivered-To: daveyxm@gmail.com Received: by 10.86.2.20 with SMTP id 20cs51757fgb; Sat, 8 Sep 2007 10:45:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.30.13 with SMTP id h13mr2666368ugj.1189273533819; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:45:33 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from post.thorcom.com (post.thorcom.com [193.82.116.20]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id e5si2444667ugf.2007.09.08.10.45.29; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:45:33 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 193.82.116.20 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org) client-ip=193.82.116.20; DomainKey-Status: good (test mode) Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 193.82.116.20 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org) smtp.mail=owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; domainkeys=pass (test mode) header.From=g3ykb@yahoo.co.uk Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1IU4L0-0004wN-Iw for rs_out_1@blacksheep.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:43:18 +0100 Received: from [193.82.59.130] (helo=relay2.thorcom.net) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1IU4Kz-0004wE-TG for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:43:17 +0100 Received: from web25407.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.12.10.141]) by relay2.thorcom.net with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IU4Kz-0005UF-Kj for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:43:17 +0100 Received: (qmail 5201 invoked by uid 60001); 8 Sep 2007 17:43:11 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.co.uk; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=h9v2n5PlnyWvfPd9lmkrSwoJXYkf/oScLq7T7CbnpUISLhGC1hppZg3HG/SmLH78ITbtju3eDZpVXutYaWv7XsZ+hMs8DGk9S34b86i+rBE7qV4lS4DI8dLLnFbpDLLgmxAEWCMLrkUG6kgggMmK7jD7ds7+/rvMdeBEXDxC9iI=; X-YMail-OSG: dNIBQg0VM1ntbGtObinYF0zhi2TVLUps6VYcp5UqVzlbXk8hOCOMQSIMuD8pbmagXnKcYpdyaNhI95Drvf_L.M1ZbFNVOvc.AYp.VLi30I7P3O4M9c9xi2jXZIc- Received: from [213.78.182.231] by web25407.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:43:11 BST Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 18:43:11 +0100 (BST) From: brian hodgson To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org In-Reply-To: <46E2E1F7.29648.AB54D7@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <839379.4506.qm@web25407.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> DomainKey-Status: good (testing) Subject: Re: LF: [500] Best receivers? Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1002238217-1189273391=:4506" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on post.thorcom.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=2.63 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rs_out_1@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 7111 --0-1002238217-1189273391=:4506 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Mike - Some ops have rewired their TS-850 to bypass the attenuator but a simple compromise is to set the dial to 499.98 and use the RIT control to tune into the UK 500 kHz band. The RIT range can be doubled (from the default of 1.27 kHz) to 2.54 kHz by changing programmable function #17. I usually set the RIT to 2.02 kHz, then the bandwidth of the USB filter gives reception to at least 504 kHz. Regards - Brian (G3YKB) Mike Dennison wrote: My IC-706 seems adequate, but my TS-850 is deaf due to the attentuator switched in to prevent overload in the MW broadcast band. So what is your experience? --------------------------------- Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. Tryit now. --0-1002238217-1189273391=:4506 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hi Mike - Some ops have rewired their TS-850 to bypass the attenuator but a simple compromise is to set the dial to 499.98 and use the RIT control to tune into the UK 500 kHz band. The RIT range can be doubled (from the default of 1.27 kHz) to 2.54 kHz by changing programmable function #17. I usually set the RIT to 2.02 kHz, then the bandwidth of the USB filter gives reception to at least 504 kHz.
 
Regards - Brian (G3YKB) 

Mike Dennison <mike.dennison@ntlworld.com> wrote:

My IC-706 seems adequate, but my TS-850 is deaf due to the
attentuator switched in to prevent overload in the MW broadcast band.
So what is your experience?




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