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KIT LEADERSHIP FOR THE
21st CENTURY Our new
HF transceiver kit, the
Sienna, is currently undergoing beta-testing. Reserve your spot in the
queue today with no money down! Just send us an email and let us know you
want one, or [NEW!] go to our online
ordering page and order one - your card will not be charged until it ships.
Use promotion code 710/08 to receive a 10% "early adopter" discount on
Sienna and all available options. |
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Front view of The Sienna
Back View of The Sienna
"Who knew a market transforming transceiver is under
beta testing? Visually, the Sienna seems ... capable of slipping nicely
into the shack." -- Scot,
KA3DRR
"The circuit descriptions are the best I've ever come
across for *any* piece of equipment I've ever worked on...Extremely well
done."
-- Dave G., KK7SS
"The
design looks very interesting, even the appearance makes the transceiver
look quite different to the usual black box. It is nice to see such
attention to the aesthetics in some of the new rigs."
-- Alan, VA3STL
Remember how good kit manuals used to be? They're that way again!
See why we know you'll be successful
building even a complex kit!
Sienna Assembly Manual now available! See catalog
page to download the pdf.
NEW! See pictures of
a Sienna as it is built by someone just
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Sienna - A Study in Duality
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Dual microprocessors
- one for keying and mic sampling, one for general control (plus the PC)
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Two choices for the
optional
built-in PC - one with good performance, one with high performance
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Dual 10dB preamps &
attenuators
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Full-duplex - Tx and
Rx are do not share any circuitry
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Dual receive
(control external secondary receiver from internal PC and route its audio to
internal speaker)
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Dual displays
(blue-green vacuum fluorescent on front panel, VGA on optional embedded PC)
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Dual keying (manual
key and paddles active simultaneously with front and back panel access)
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Dual stereo audio
(headphones and speakers active simultaneously with separate volume
controls), each with plenty of volume
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Dual analog backlit
meters
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Dual passband tuning
(at 9MHz 2nd IF and 455KHz 3rd IF) with choice of four filters at each IF
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Dual speech
processors (audio speech compressor and RF speech processor)
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Dual antenna ports
using two relays for better isolation from A to
B,
plus separate receive
antenna
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Dual-tone
multi-color front panel for easy identification of groups of controls (Want
a different color scheme - heath green? cobalt blue? black? Just ask.
There's a small extra fee, but since we use a polycarbonate overlay instead
of paint, we can do that too!)
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Dual band-change modes: External
keypad has direct one-button band selection; Front panel has a "band"
button, then use the rotary knobs to change VFO memories or bands, or use
the up/down buttons.
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PLUS:
Triple conversion general coverage receiver (500KHz to 30MHz)
with 4.5KHz roofing filter. 1ppm TCXO
standard. DZKit exclusive Passive Signal Boost (PSBTM) helps extract
weak signals on a fading band. Updatable firmware (for bug fixes
and feature enhancements only -- we won't ship an unfinished product!) Optional Embedded PC runs Windows or Linux
with LAN/USB/VGA/PS-2/RS-232 connectors on the back panel. Optional MIO
board adds a second video display with DVI, S-Video, composite video outputs
and 6W stereo speaker outputs. Optional external
12-button keypad for direct band entry and memory access. Noise Blanker
with three pulse widths and variable threshold.
Simple menu system.
Extremely wide (+/-16MHz) RIT/XIT tuning. Compartment for
5A-Hr battery or 100W amp. SiliconPixels ChromaDSP
and 10-band graphic equalizer (with PC option). Solid aluminum and
steel construction with "no-flex", uncluttered front panel. 147
built-in memories including ten 12-character CW memories with Farnsworth speed
control. Negative ALC voltage input for linears. Transverter
output. 455KHz IF output.
Much more!
And it's a true 40-hour KIT with lots of soldering!
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