[GreenKeys] ST-8000A and ST-6000 (was "More where these came from")

[hsvham]

Thanks,
my ST-6000 has no tuning scope and it does a good job on the noisy bands.  I'll never toss it out the door (it was a gift to me to get me going in RTTY), but I want to give the newer ST-8000A a try, I hope it does as good (hopefully better?) on HF.

BTW, I did not see a user's manual shown on ePay as accompanying that 8000A - can someone direct me to a source for one?  

73,
Steve K4KM

--- On Wed, 6/3/09, Don Cunningham <wb5hak at martineer.net> wrote:

> From: Don Cunningham <wb5hak at martineer.net>
> Subject: [GreenKeys] ST-8000A and ST-6000 (was "More where these came from")
> To: "hsvham" <hsvham at yahoo.com>, "Jeffrey Angus" <jangus at socal.rr.com>, larryradio at att.net, "Greenkeys" <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>, "Bill Henry" <ghenry at halcomm.com>, "Herb Graeber" <hhg at suddenlink.net>
> Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 6:46 PM
> One word to the wise, replacing
> ST-6000's with the ST-8000A.  Listen to what 
> Bill Henry and others are saying.  This TU was
> designed to fullfill a 
> government contract, required to be "like" another brand of
> TU.  The 
> ST-6000A is a FINE RTTY TU, designed for 60 and 100 wpm
> RTTY, with built in 
> loop supply and tuning scope.  I have most of Hal's
> units by now, but 
> consider the ST-6000 to be probably the "pinnacle" of their
> design for 
> amateur RTTY (maybe if my ST-8000 (non A model) wasn't such
> a basket case, I 
> would think it was better, hi)!!  Just MHO, but I
> bought a new ST-6000 for 
> myself upon retirement, that was a special commercial low
> tone unit, and it 
> far outdistances ANY other TU I own.  I have the
> ST-8000, ST-8000A (NIB one, 
> so I paid a LOT more for it, hi), several ST-6000's and
> ST-6's.  All do what 
> they were designed to do, just don't expect the last to be
> the best for 
> amateur use.  If I'm wrong, some of you straighten me
> out, but in my shack, 
> I'll never get rid of my ST-6000.  Off the soapbox,
> hi.
> 73,
> Don, WB5HAK 
> 
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