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Meatball
| | Posted on Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 7:25 am: | 
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WILL A GLEN VFO WORK IN SSB MODE ON A BROWNING MARK III??????? |
Scrapiron63
| | Posted on Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 12:55 pm: |
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Yep, it'll work for the transmitter, but the Mark III is really a pain to use on SSB. The reason is the split TX and RX, but if your determined, it can be done. I tune in another station with the receiver, then spot the Tx to the Rx. It will be close, but your TX might be off the other station's RX, he'll tune you, then you have to retune your RX, that along with the drifting of the old tube rigs, and pretty soon your doing what we call, waltzing across the band. Guess it doesn't matter, as most of the Q-coders up on freeband are split anyway, and don't even know it, QSL?, but they know how to QSL, over and over and over. Something else, on SB your browning ping will sound like someone squashed a beer can. I love the old Brownings, got 5 sets of various models, but for me they are for AM and nostalgia time. I keep a Galaxy Saturn and a Ranger 3500 for 'convenience' use. The saturn for 'running channels' and listening on different bands, and the 3500 for SSB as it does over a 100 watts, which is usually sufficient. scrapiron |
2600
| | Posted on Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 8:35 pm: |
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I see two questions getting answered at once here.
First, you will be disappointed trying to use a Glenn slider for SSB with ANY radio, not just the Mark III. The Glenn is an AM-ONLY device because it just isn't stable enough. And no, I don't just mean slow frequency drift. The Glenn also has low-frequency FM "noise" in its output. This will cause the receiver signal (when used with a transceiver) AND your transmit to sound like someone is standing on your adam's apple and pushing real hard. The reason it does this will doubtless bore you, but I have never seen a 'fix' for that built-in limitation of the Glenn. Doesn't seem to cause any trouble on AM, though.
Second, using a Mark III on SSB is a pain, IMHO because of the RECEIVER. For my money, the SSB TRANSMIT is a lot better than the receive. Who needs a one-way SSB radio? The Brownings were originally DESIGNED for AM. They do that like no other radio. The SSB was an afterthought, and performs like one.
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Meatball
| | Posted on Sunday, November 17, 2002 - 9:07 pm: |
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HEY THANKS GUYS ...I WILL STICK WITH AM ON THE
MARK III....THANKS AGAIN
MEATBALL............... |
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