[Lowfer] TS-890

[JJ]

I had a transceiver, maybe an IC-746 that wouldn't go below 30kHz but if 
I engaged the RIT the RIT would bring it lower.
73,
Jon WS1K

On 10/8/2020 2:02 PM, Douglas Williams wrote:
> It arrived today. I didn't expect it to be quite so......ginormous (and
> heavy). It dwarfs my R-75. I'm going to have to build a shelf for my little
> table if I want to add any accessories.
>
> https://i.imgur.com/qbazcls.jpg
>
> It seems quite sensitive at LF. I heard the usual daytime airport NDBs, and
> the close ones were S9+. WWVB is S9+10 and some MSK station around 40kHz
> was S9+10. It will not tune lower than 30 kHz.
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 4:35 PM Douglas Williams <williamsdoug1966 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Zack,
>>
>> Gratz. Always fun to play with new toys. :-)  This new generation of
>> transceivers is amazing.
>>
>> D.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 4:30 PM Zack Widup <w9sz.zack at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I just got an FT897D. Nowhere hear the bells and whistles of that radio
>>> but
>>> it is a great small radio for portable operation, plus it has 144 and 432
>>> MHz, too.
>>>
>>> But I was tuning around in the NDB LF band as well as 475 kHz with it the
>>> other night. The FSK CW beacon (I forget the call now) on 475 kHz was just
>>> booming in on the radio and I heard a lot of NDB's between 250 and 450
>>> kHz.
>>>
>>> 73, Zack W9SZ
>>>
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