Sam;
Stay with apples-apples. Paragon/II's are synthesized rigs.
Omni V, VI and VI Plus are ham band designs only.
It will be 2004 at the earliest amateurs would be authorized access to 5
MHz.
I'll be glad to see a new band. THEN I'll worry about my Omni VI Plus
etc.
Regards,
Jim Miller, K4SQR
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 20:12:32 -0400 Sam Bridges <radiobridge@InfoAve.Net>
writes:
> Tnx to Paul (W8KC) and Patrick (K9PF) for your reasoned thoughts. I
> have
> not changed my mine as yet since there is the possiblity that I can
> modify
> my Omni 6+ . There is a Drake TR-7 out there that is quite capable
> of 5 MHZ
> and it took only the loss of ONE resistor to acheive this results.
> Hopefully the old Drakes will still be around "several years" from
> now. I
> know that the "treatment" has NO side-effects. But I say again I do
> not
> mind being negative at times unless there is some means by which the
> Omni
> 6+ can be capable of 5 MHZ. Again, is there some means by which the
> Omni 6+
> can work 5 MHZ?? There was a rumor that the Paragons could be made
> to work
> 1.8 MHZ to 30 MHZ. But I do not know that. Tnx de KJ4ZM Sam
>
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