[ARC5] BC-348 tuning rate and article

[Bob Groh]

Well, we can go even one step further.  Just use the SDR without the
BC-348!  Well, maybe you turn it on for the looks! Naw, that is a step too
far.

Bob, WA2CKY (old enough to know better!!)

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 9:01 AM Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I hope to not be excommunicated.
>
> I don't have one of those radios. I don't recall even seeing one in person.
>
> Some of the radios with wide system passbands and/or fast tuning rate
> can be 'tamed' with computer sound card DSP and computer sound card SDR
> software. No mods are required in the radio, not even 'easily reversed'
> mods. None. Zero. No mods are required to the computer or sound card.
> Not even 'easily reversed' mods. Zero. None. The SDR software will take
> care of the wide passband and to some extent the tuning rate. The SDR
> software does a nice job with both.
>
> Forgive me my friends for I know I have sinned.
>
> Happy Mother's Day to all of the mothers reading this and to all the
> men's mothers and the mothers of their children:)
>
> 73,
>
> Bill  KU8H
>
> On 5/10/20 12:11 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
> > On 10 May 2020 at 0:03, Hubert Miller wrote:
> >
> >> I wonder what you the readers
> >> think about the BC-348 tuning rate and dial as - is. I tend to think
> it's already adequate and perfectly usable.
> >>
> >> There was another article a few years later which did the same
> procedure and so enabled 15 meters hamband
> >> coverage without modifying any coils.
> >
> > I heartily agree, having used one which my Mother bought for me, shortly
> after I got my
> > General.
> >
> > I was very impressed with it.
> >
> > Ken W7EKB
>
>
> --
> bark less - wag more
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