SX-100 question

Darrell, WA5VGO hbrnut at EARTHLINK.NET
Mon Jun 2 21:31:00 EDT 2003


I've never heard one that didn't sound like that. I've never spent any
serious time attempting to track it down, but it's not in the audio stage.
I'd look in the detector or AGC.

73,
Darrell, WA5VGO



>But the receive audio just has this edge, it's tiring to listen to.
>Almost sounds like crossover distortion in a solid state amp. Low
>frequencies sound distorted too. 6K6GT is biased normally. Still sounds
>like it's overloading slightly on local AM stations too.
>
>What's the opinion of you SX-100 owners? Is the receive audio even
>"good" on these receivers? I'd classify it as poor....I know it's only a
>5khz IF bandwidth, I'm not expecting Hi Fi, but this just doesn't sound
>"right".

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