*We recently helped a Friend set up a DDS type VFO on his Corsair. The
simple job of plugging it in and selecting External VFO, made this radio a
real keeper. I am now wanting the DDS type VFO for several of my old Boat
Anchors. He now talks on it exclusively and his Flex Radio seems to be
gathering dust! The thrill will probably wear off soon though because he
sure does like the Flex. The Corsair has however stopped his Doubling with
other stations. It seems that there is a 1 to 3 second lag time between
keying and actually transmitting with the Flex System. We have tried
several really High Powered Computers on his Flex System? This delayed
operation would drive me absolutely Crazy!*
* 73 to All from Wade/KJ4WS*
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Brian Carling <bcarling@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> Bottom line - OMNI D series C is a wonderful $300 transceiver to this day !
>
> Best regards - Bry Carling
>
>
>
> > On Aug 22, 2014, at 3:50 AM, "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > How good are they really?
> > (long story)
> >
> > I used one on a big Multi-Multi SSB Contest DX-pedition to Liechtenstein
> in
> > 1988.
> > See: http://www.dj0ip.de/my-expeditions/hb0csz-1988/
> > We were divided into teams with 2 to 4 people per band. I was on the
> 2-man
> > 80m team and each team had two transceivers, one for run and the other
> for
> > hunting multies (or today we call it S&P).
> >
> > ALL 12 stations were set up inside the same room in a large cabin near
> the
> > top of the highest mountain in Liechtenstein. The noise inside the room
> was
> > terrible, but the heat generated by the rigs was very welcome on that
> cold
> > winter weekend.
> >
> > Each team had one set of band filters which was used by the run
> station. We
> > had to build them ourselves because they weren't readily available back
> > then. None of the S&P rigs had band filters.
> >
> > During operations, sitting side by side with the 80m run station (Drake C
> > Line + MLA-2500 amp), I was doing S&P on my Omni C. I had no amp. The
> run
> > stn. was on a vertically polarized mono-delta-loop, I was using a
> vertical
> > mounted to the guard rail of the ski lift. I worked a ton of multi's
> > barefoot, including Australia, all found while listening at the same time
> > the run station was transmitting a bit higher in the same band.
> > AND ALL found while the other 5 stations were transmitting high power
> out of
> > the same room on other bands.
> >
> > All other bands used some sort of JA transceiver as a multi radio.
> > All had problems trying to hear anything at all.*
> >
> > * There must be a message there somewhere.
> >
> > As a result of the inability to hear with the multi stations (except
> mine),
> > we changed our tactic after that.
> >
> > One month later for the CW section of CQWW, we went to Luxembourg (LX8A).
> > There we set up a second QTH located 10km away from the transmitting
> > station. We set up our 6 multi-hunting transceivers there. We did not
> > transmit from the second location. Each of the 6-band teams had its own
> VHF
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