[Elecraft] 817 audio better than K2?

Wed Jul 31 16:08:00 2002

At 09:27 AM 07/31/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>[email protected] wrote:
>>I was referring to the *receive* audio.  The 817 is quite loud and 
>>produces a lot of decent sound from that small speaker.
>
>Not sure what "better" means, but I just did an A-B test of my K2 and my 
>817 on the same antenna system and the audio quantity is pretty much 
>identical for my two rigs.  Both controls are at 0900 for normal listening 
>and I can get speaker rattling audio with each at less than full AF setting.
>
>73, Phil

In the first two sentences of the message you can see that Jim is talking 
about the VOLUME level of the K2 vs. the 817 and not about the frequency 
response of the audio. The use of the word "better" does seem to be leading 
people away from the initial reference to volume.

Cheers!

Kevin.  (http://www.interlog.com/~kcozens/)

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