Hi.
Yeah, me too! I'd like to find out how to get young, again <grin> !
73, de Lou K2LKK
At 04:27 PM 6/10/2006 +0100, you wrote:
>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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