Hi everyone,
I've been watching this thread with some puzzlement. I must be falling
victim to the same age issues you guys are mentioning because I am pretty
certain that the TS680 was the 6-meter included version of the TS440 and the
TS690 was the 6-meter included version of the TS450.
Can somebody straighten me out? What was the 6-meter included version of the
TS440?
73
Ron Miller
N6MSA
Clearwater Florida
SKYPE: arjay1
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On Behalf Of Louis Kim Kline
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 6:53 PM
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Subject: Re: Kenwood TS 680
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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> > > >
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> > > >
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