There is a fascinating front-page article in today's Wall Street Journal about the passion for expensive (circa $1,000) rice cookers in Japan. A perfectly functional cooker costs $10. A quote follows
Paul, K5AF asked : I only see a couple of entries in the eHam reviews for the Inrad roofing filters for the Omni VI. I'm considering getting the CW version and would appreciate any comments on the pe
TRLog does not support the Jupiter command set. In general, the classic contest logging programs, CT and TRLog, expect to send a series of (BCD) digits down the serial port corresponding to the VFO f
After a long hiatus, I am trying to get my station ready for the contest this weekend. My ancient 486/DOS 6.21 gave up the ghost. My backup runs WIN95. I can get the OMNI VI+ to communicate with any
Since the Orion has two receivers, one of which can tune well out-of-band, I would like to see TenTec offer the following feature in regards to the Noise Blanker. As has been recently noted on this b
The easiest solution is to buy the Top Ten band decoder for your specific rig. www.qth.com/topten They make decoders for Yaesu and Icom rigs that will work "off the shelf." Those using Yaesu rigs can
I noticed two other points not editorially mentioned in the QST review of the latest Click-meister rig. Figure 5 in that review shows very sharp rise and fall times; although the text says that menu
The problem is not with the person reading the posts; the underlying problem is with the person writing and sending the posts. Many of us read the posts in the Archives, and even the most up-to-date
I see that INRAD is taking orders for the OMNI VI roofing filter kit. The performance measurements on their site show that, the unmodified stock OMNI VI has better intermod performance at 2kHz spacin
" You are seeing the difference between a 4 kHz filter (MP mod) versus a 600 Hz (Omni mod). At 2 kHz spacings, the MP has one interfering signal falling inside its +/- 2 kHz passband, but at the same
I am using version 1.369 Orion software. (Don't want to change versions until after this weekend's contest!) On my Pod, F3 does whatever F1 is set to do on the menu. That is, whatever I set F3 to is
99.9% of my operation is in HF contests - 50/50 CW & SSB. I was very happy with my pair of OMNI VI+s, and believe my scores were pretty competitive in my categories. Certainly the rigs didn't keep me
Paul, I don't have a Paragon II, but I have used OMNI VIs. That rig is said to emulate an Icom 735. That is, the basic instruction set for controlling frequency is similar to that of an Icom 735. But
Good condition - left over when I traded an OMNI VI+ toward an Orion - asking $115 plus shipping. This is the factory assembled unit designed to work with the OMNI V, OMNI VI, and Paragon II radios.
For Sale: Model 285 CW filter, 500 Hz bandwidth, 6.3Mhz IF, from my OMNI VI+ traded in toward Orion - this filter can be used with OMNI V, OMNI VI, Corsair, Corsair II, Paragon, Paragon II, Delta. As
According to Doug Smith's web site, the DSP engine in the Orion should have 100 dB dynamic range before the analog AGC kicks in. This is based on the 24 bit A to D conversion. It seems to me that wit
The TenTec amateur radio site says as of May 24: "The Peter Hart G3SJX review of ORION for the Radio Society of Great Britain is published in the June 2004 issue of RadCom and can be read by RSGB mem
I note in my new Orion that the supplied roofing filters have 4 crystals each, which is sufficient given their intended purpose. The accessory filters for the Orion, since they are also used in older