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- From: gary@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Gary Mr.VAX Buchholz)
- Subject: Re: AR2500 Evaluation
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.201709.5409@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1992Nov17.151846.12638@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:17:09 GMT
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- I have also owned a AR2500. I took ACE up on the 30 day free trial and
- sent mine back.
-
- Here are some of my reasons. . .
-
- 1) I could never receive any USB/LSB with the BFO. The smallest tuning
- increment remains 5 Khz. If you want to monitor the ham bands you
- really need a 2.5Khz increment or better. The BFO just doesn't make
- it on this radio for LSB/USB. Even when I located a ham station with
- my Kenwood TS-850 (on 20m), I was still unable to tune it in even though
- I knew the exact freq. I have little hope for the handheld SSB/BFO
- version of the AR1000.
-
- 2) This is properly a mobile unit. The speaker is on the bottom -- facing
- the table if you try to use it as a desktop unit.
-
- 3) Display is too hard to see.
-
- 4) Its not portable in that it does not run on any self contained battery.
-
- 5) Its cheaply constructed .., looks ugly.
-
- 6) The automatic frequency sort will drive you up the wall unless you
- use a spreadsheet or dadabase program to track the freqs.
-
- 7) Its not trivial to program via the RS232 port. There are funny
- timing restrictions.
-
- 8) Its too "light" (mass-wise). Pressing a button will send it skidding
- across the table.
-
- 9) Front-end overload and no bandpass filtering is a problem.
-
- Other than these minor faults, its a great radio.
-
- Gary
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- Gary Buchholz / KE9ZM Internet: gary@midway.uchicago.edu
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