[600MRG] Kenwood TS-990S first impressions

[w8au at sssnet.com]

At 09:34 AM 3/17/2014, sbjohnston at aol.com wrote:
>  One further observation on the TS-990S that I forgot to mention:
>
>In AM mode the widest IF filtering settings should pass enough 
>signal to demodulate more than 5 kHz of audio, especially if tuned 
>to one side of the signal, but the audio scope (which can show up to 
>8 kHz) never seems to show any energy much beyond 5 kHz (nor am I 
>hearing it).  The maximum settings of the audio filter bandwidth at 
>5 kHz seems to be the limiting factor.  I am hopeful that there is a 
>configuration somewhere to "let it out" more for hi-fi AM reception, 
>or perhaps a firmware change down the road will allow it.

You could pick off the I.F. freq at a point before the filtering, 
feed it through one of your respectable AM Boatanchor receivers, and 
make the best of the situation. :-)

Perrry     w8au