[Icom] QSK w/756Pro??

[Dave Edwards]

Hmmm... I think the opposite... except that I also love my 756Pro.
The QSK isn't...simple as that.
I have an old Kenwood TS900 that I can turn the screw on the Vox delay all
the way so that the sending follows the keying. It IS a bit louder, but its
the same as the Pro.
I hear the Pro's relay very clearly...its not at all silent.
I have never owned a TenTec, so cannot say anything about their famous QSK
ability, but I have been using the little Elecraft K1...which is a toy, but
a great one!!
and the QSK on that is heaven compared to the 756pro's...which I won't use.
There must be a design cost, or difficulty to using Pin Diode switching in
the Pro...otherwise I guess Icom would have gone that way.
....Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Hammond" <dhhdeh@concentric.net>
To: <icom@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 8:21 PM
Subject: [Icom] QSK w/756Pro??


> Hi Everyone,
>
> I purchased my Pro II at Dayton.  Since then it has caused me to sell my
> Omni VI after six years and in spite  of a complete retrofit of
aftermarket
> filters and several major mods that I performed on it.
>
> Though this will be considered blasphemy by the Ten Tec Loyal, the Pro II
> has vastly better QSK than the Omni VI which exhibits a nasty sidetone
> click, and receiver thumps and whooses on each changeover. QSK on the Omni
> VI was miserable. It also could not be much improved.
>
> The Pro II is on of the best QSK rigs from Japan I have used. Not perfect
> (as is nearly achieved with my remaining Omni V) but nearly so.
>
> I also use an outboard keyer on all my rigs, the Idiom Press CMOS-4, a
great
> unit.  It removes the leading character truncation caused by the rig's 10
ms
> relay delay. The CMOS-4 has a "k" compensation factor to match this kind
of
> delay on many different rigs.  I use an 8 ms compensation factor on the
Pro
> II.  Check it out at http://www.idiompress.com/cmos4.html
>
> My $.02
>
> I could also tell you about my adventures with the Omni VI's CPU chip
> induced receiver  birdies but alas that is best left for another day.
>
> 73 de N1LQ-Dave
>
>
>
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