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Message from discussion DEGEN DE1108 worldband receiver is now in preliminary design stage, any one has recommends on it?

Guy Atkins

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More options Jan 31 2005, 11:38 am

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From: "Guy Atkins" <dxNOS...@guyatkins.com>

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:38:57 -0800

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Subject: Re: DEGEN DE1108 worldband receiver is now in preliminary design stage, any one has recommends on it?

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<leowood2...@msn.com> wrote in message

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> The designer(also the main engineer of DE1103 & Grundig SAT800) now ask
> advise of the receiver function from BCLer, the DE1108 will be the
> high-end receiver of DE 110X series, it comes with a large dot matrix
> LCD display(128*64) two way speaker system, MP3 recorder, AM sync
> detector, SSB, dual conversion, the reference basis is SAT700, it
> should has better performance than sony 2001D, 7600G, SW77 even SAT700,
> the outline dimensions will be large than SAT700,pls post your thougts
> here, I will take the message to the design, thank you!

OK, here are a few thoughts on features I would like to see on the DE1108
portable:

1. Digital readout to a finer resolution than the Sony 2001D. A readout of
0.01 kHz would be very nice.

2. A passband tuning control (PBT) such as the Eton E1/Grundig Sat900 will
have, useful to at least +/- 2 kHz range. If passband tuning cannot be
included, then the AM synch detector should be a SELECTABLE SIDEBAND type,
as with the Sony's. Ideally, the new Degen would have both of these
features.

3. Sensitivity at least as good as the DE1103, which is a useful portable
here on the West Coast of the USA where signals are weaker.

4. A comfortable, large tuning knob, without audio "chuffing" (muting) when
tuning. The tuning knob on the DE1103 was a step in the right direction,
except it couldn't be very big due to the small size of the radio itself.

Guy Atkins
Puyallup, WA USA

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