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I finally took the topple and had to glean out for myself about this nice looking radio. People complained about SSB reception and the Filters. I was delighted I made the decision to take this radio as my radio has none of these issues with a serial number in the 1400's! A QSO was going on this morning on 3872.00. I turned on my Yaesu HF rig to verify the this was exactly 3872.00 LSB. To originate the comparison against several other radios, I placed the ETON E-1 on 3872.00 and hit LSB and bingo, audio was dazzling as you would ask it to be. Time for the Sony ICF-2010. Same results, first I hit the USB and audio was passe but audible, hit the true LSB setting and audio was loud and positive.
OK, now onto the Satellit 750. Placed the radio on 3872, hit USB, BFO site at 1 o'clock status, Normal, and audio was used but audible, hit LSB and audio was strong and determined. The 750 acted exactly the same as the Sony did .....
This tells me that the 750 has absolutely no issues with SSB reception...
Naturally the operating instructions are not positive on the 1 o'clock plot for SSB control. It came from the factory space at 1 o'clock. My Collins 75A-4 has a 1 o'clock situation for LSB and a 11 o'clock situation for USB, the 750 acts the same intention... Since the 750 tunes in 1 KHz steps, you will need to tune the SSB knob at times, but the USB and LSB bandpass circuitry is exquisite. Yes they should have made the radio tune in 100Hz steps when SSB is on, but that is not the case. The E-1 does tune in 10 Hz steps so it does not need this. The Sony tunes in 100 Hz steps so you can bag SSB Discontinuance but not steady.. For that reason the 750 is better than the ICF-2010... I mature the narrow filter for these test.
OK, now to the command of the wide filter... After playing with this for about 10 minutes on local AM stations and I mean STARING closely at the S-meter, I would say that the filter has a very diminutive kick up on the very edges, I mean out at 4 KHz offset. + or - 3 KHz the signal fair rolls off, normal operation, as you hit 4 KHz on each extinguish the S-meter might go up a tad, but at 4 KHz you are already loosing signal and reaching the raze of the filter. But +- 2 khz the S-meter is flat.. If something is sure, I do not glance it. Tune in a state, S-meter is peaked, tune away either side and the s-meter will descend off as you hit 5 KHz in wide mode. I former the attenuator to preserve the s-meter in its mid range.
I am not saying something is not demonstrate, but after stop examination I discover nothing that indicates a plight. I have the Scott and BR sports reveal on now, 1090, XX1090 San Diego, and have it in wide spot for chunky audio... Sounds colossal!
OK, all this obvious talk, must be something that concerns me, apt?? I do have a pain about the battery mask. It does spy very glowing, as does the entire radio. This is not a radio to hotfoot off to the beach,,, This is not to say that the battery veil is not strong and one unprejudiced needs to be careful. The E-1 battery shroud has the same misfortune but so far after many battery changes, the Eton E-1 camouflage is composed ravishing.
This radio is a fun to utilize. Keyboard entry is posthaste and flawless, can't say that about the E-1. E-1 needs to have the decimal pushed, 750 does not... I have not got into the memory or scan functions or timer mode yet.. That should be straightforward...
The Monitoring Times review is scheme out of line... He made non gracious assumptions with many parts of the evaluation. He was concerned it was only a dual conversion and not a triple conversion and might have issues with strong local signals. Here in San Diego, NOT THE CASE.... Plus with an RF bag and 3 station attenuator, you would never have an train. With Zero attenuation and bulky RF bag and tuning around a 75K watt AM state, 690, no issues, and I was able to NULL out with the top antenna 90% of this powerhouse site.. Larry Van Horn has done a sizable injustice to this radio in Monitoring Times. I was skeptical, but had to objective expose to myself, I am satisfied I took the fall, this radio is not being packed up for return to Amazon... Now I have to figure out where it is going to go in the house. I honestly believe it may replace the Sony ICF-6800W now sitting next to my Sangean WFR-1 WiFi radio.. You objective have to treasure radios that have a right S-meter to expend...
The Single Side Band (SSB) reception is fair poor. No synchronous detection. The wide bandwidth setting is useless and the signal strength meter is horribly improper. My system memory feature was impossibly difficult to exhaust. A radio costing less than $100 (Kaito 2100) far outperforms this Grundig! Don't kill your money on this turkey.
Neil Bell
The radio works fairly well on AM and Shortwave. FM performance is still trustworthy. SSB (Single Side Band) performance is very bad. Grand candidate for the $199.00 class but at $300.00 it is unbiased not worth it to me. For the same money you can have two Grundig G5 radios or a superior mature Sony 2010. In the future companies like Kiwa may elect to offer some improved filters for the radio. If so, that may develop it more pretty to the Dxing and SWLing community. On the other hand, that adds additional cost to an already overly priced radio for the level of performance offered.
