[Elecraft] OT: QST's review of the Yaesu FTDX5000MP

[Larry Phipps]

  'Yup, as far as I can tell, and also for any BW on 12, 10 or 6m.

Larry N8LP


On 11/15/2010 3:33 PM, James Sarte wrote:
> This is one thing I don't understand with the TS-590s:
>
> "For 1.8/3.5/7/14/21MHz amateur bands, when receiving in CW/FSK/SSB 
> modes down conversion is selected automatically if the final passband 
> is 2.7kHz or less"
>
> So does that mean if the passband selected is greater than 2700 Hz, 
> the receiver switches to upconversion?!?
>
> James K2QI
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:23 PM, N8LP <n8lp at telepostinc.com 
> <mailto:n8lp at telepostinc.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     The panadapter limitations are easily taken care of with a 3rd party
>     panadapter. FT5K versions are among the top 4 selling versions of
>     LP-PAN.
>     They were smart enough to include a built in IF output. More than
>     I can say
>     for Kenwood, who not only didn't provide an IF output jack on
>     their latest
>     offering, but came up with perhaps the goofiest conversion scheme
>     I have
>     seen in a long time.
>
>     Larry N8LP
>
>
>