It was amazing this weekend. I had my II cranked down to 300Hz in
bandwidth: it just seemed like things were busy. At no time was
receiving obviously hit with any signals that shouldn't have been in
the passband. The "<wiggle fingers> useless <stop wiggling fingers>"
sweep full of signals.
Amazing radio. Sounds like you had fun!
KC4FOX
JD
On Nov 5, 2006, at 2:42 AM, JACrux wrote:
> I just spent a week operating as KH6/G3JAG and was obliged to
> choose very
> quickly between using an Orion (I) or an FT1000MP, never having
> used either
> before. No time to play - just get on with operating.
>
> The Orion won ..... the FT1000 had so many buttons I never even
> switched it
> on ! And I found the Orion extremely user-friendly as long as I
> avoided
> doing anything complicated ... no time for that when there is a
> howling mob
> on frequency. Obviously not as easy as my ancient Omni-V.9, but a real
> delight to use on CW.
> There may well be software glitches that need fine tuning, but as
> an operator
> - as opposed to a nit-picking knob twiddler - I wish I could have
> brought it
> home with me.
>
> I also liked the Alpha 99, but it was noisier than my Hercules II.
> Besides
> which I could not get it in my overnight bag .......
> ex-KH6/G3JAG
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