Sorry Lou
My mistake, getting the ts-680 and ts-690 mixed up. Must be getting
old.
On 9 Jun 2006 at 22:18, Louis Kim Kline wrote:
> Hi Keith.
>
> You are thinking of the TS690S, which is a great radio for blind
> operators. Unfortunately, the TS680S was a Kenwood TS140S with 6 meters
> added on. It used a double conversion receiver with first IF at 40.455MHz
> and a 2nd IF at 455 KHz. The receiver didn't have the best strong signal
> characteristics in the world, but at the time I was 37 miles outside the
> city, so it didn't matter that much to me. I did notice a tendency to pick
> up an image off the 1st IF that would bring FM broadcast interference into
> the upper frequencies. This wasn't a real serious problem in rural areas,
> but could get to be a problem in urban areas. I would think, however, that
> a decent low pass filter would knock that down quite a bit.
>
> The TS680S had 31 memories, and the last 10 memories were tunable memories
> where you could program a lower limit and an upper limit and the radio
> would just tune the memory between the two limits. This was great for
> setting limits just inside your band privileges so that you never had to
> worry about being out of band. The TS690S does this as well, except the
> the TS690S has 100 memories.
>
> The TS680 is not good from two standpoints--it has no provision for a voice
> synthesizer, and it does not have any provision for direct frequency
> entry. There is no provision for controlling an auto tuner from the TS680
> either, although you could run most of the popular auto tuners in a stand
> alone mode where you initiate tuning from the auto tuner rather than from
> the radio, and you take the care to make sure that you cut the power back
> before you initiate tuning the antenna.
>
> One thing I will say about the TS680 is that it had a built in preamp that
> made it extremely sensitive on 10 meters and 6 meters. If I still had
> usable vision and lived a few miles out of the city, I wouldn't hesitate to
> buy another one, but as a blind person, I wouldn't be interested.
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
>
> At 11:35 PM 6/9/2006 +0100, you wrote:
> >Hi Andy,
> >
> > From what I can remember, this is a ts-450 with 6 metres included.
> >
> >
> >
> >On 9 Jun 2006 at 16:23, andy m0ceg wrote:
> >
> > > Hello All, Does anyone know any thing about this Kenwood rig the
> > TS680, I
> > > believe it has six meters on this rig not quite sure.
> > > Regards
> > > Andrew Shipp
> > >
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