I agree completely with Tom's analysis. I might add, I played
with a 756PRO recently, and the filters are great in the PRO.
The RX-331 filters are even steeper than the PRO!
Carl Moreschi N4PY
Franklinton, North Carolina
n4py@earthlink.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas C. Jednacz" <tjednacz@ieee.org>
To: "cshinn" <cshinn@connect.net>; <TenTec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 11:29 PM
Subject: RE: [TenTec] Apples and Oranges?
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> > To: TenTec@contesting.com
> > Subject: [TenTec] Apples and Oranges?
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> > Has anyone in the group had a Jupiter next to an Omni 6+ on the same
bench
> > at the same time doing a A/B during a big contest?
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> I did this with a Pegasus and an Omni VI+ during both CW and Phone
contests
> on 40 meters. The 300 Hz filter in the Pegasus has reasonable skirts and
no
> blow by. Front end overload is not as good as the Omni but when I used the
> attenuator it cleaned up very nicely. The Omni VI+ with cascaded 250 Hz
> filters is better but not an order of magnitude better. I liked the
Pegasus
> better on Phone - even on 40 meters during the DX contest. Used the
> attenuator again and it compared nicely to the Omni VI+.
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> Horror of horrors I compared the Icom 756 PRO to the Omni VI+ and the
> Pegasus and the filters in the PRO are superior. The PRO can go to 50 Hz
> filter with 100 Hz skirts - just amazing. CW and Phone are superior on the
> PRO. I think the PRO designers learned from the Pegasus design and then
used
> a much faster 32 bit processor to get the dramatic results.
>
> 73,
>
> Tom, W7QF
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