Hi Lou;

Pardon my ignorance but, how do you use synchronous detection.

I have never been able to master it.

And, do you know how good the synchronous detection is in the Sony 7600?

73 De Anthony W2AJV
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From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: R75 menu


> Hi.
>
> I love the synchronous detection on my Drake R8A and my Sony ICF-2010.  If
> the Icom implementation is as good, it should be a really great receiver.
> --Lou K2LKK
>
> At 08:08 AM 1/5/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>>Phil,
>>
>>I'm always more comfortable with knobs and switches than I am with menus,
>>which is why I like my 751A and am reluctant to change to something
>>else.  Unfortunately, though, menus are the way of the world today, and if
>>we want the newest features we just have to suck it up and learn to live
>>with them to some extent.  I'll get just enough of a handle on them to
>>change what I want to change, and leave the rest alone.  While I like the
>>idea of using the computer to set things up, I really don't want to tie my
>>radios to the computer.  However, I am interested in the R75's transceiver
>>capabilities.  I have to read some more, but from the little I've read, I
>>think it can be used to control my 751A, and that makes for some
>>interesting possibilities, especially on AM where I want to use
>>synchronous
>>detection.  Lots to explore here.
>>
>>Steve
>>
>>On Tuesday 1/4/05 22:57 Phil Scovell wrote:
>>
>> >Steve,
>> >
>> >You have an individual set button which serves the purpose of getting
>> >into
>> >the menu structure or switching between a long wire or coax antenna.
>> >There
>> >is no doubt that if a blind guy would memorize, or write down all the
>> >various menu choices and how they would be changed, it could be done
>> >without
>> >sighted help.  You use the same memory up and down keys on the bottom
>> >right
>> >panel of the radio to make changes in the menu settings.  Like I said,
>> >I'm
>> >sure you can do all that through the software but I'm getting too old to
>> >screw around with all that software crap now.  Plus, I had my computer
>> >tied
>> >to my transciever for years for different functions and it was a pain in
>> >the
>> >butt horsing around and changing everything all the time.  I like just
>> >grabbing knobs and pushing buttons.  I hate tuning rigs and amplifiers
>> >now,
>> >too, so that shows you how old I'm getting.  I also refuse to climb my
>> >tower
>> >any more for fear it might bend or buckle due to wait.  My weight.
>> >Worse, I
>> >might experience a heart attack while up there and they would have to
>> >call a
>> >hospital rescue helicopter to come and get me.  How embarrassing.  I
>> >hope to
>> >live long enough to own a good 80 or 90 foot crank up tower where I just
>> >push a button in the shack and away she goes.  Then, and only then, I
>> >will
>> >get me a 2 element 80 meter beam.  Of course, if we happen to have one
>> >of
>> >those huge corona mass ejection's on the Sun that we had last year that,
>> >fortunately, was faced away from the earth, there won't be any more ham
>> >radio once that mass reaches earth.  I mean, when 100,000 square miles
>> >of
>> >the surface of the sun blows out into space, you best be living way
>> >under
>> >ground because it is about to get hotter than an Arizona summer.
>> >
>> >Phil.
>> >K0NX
>
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