Hi folks - I don't know if this feature exists on the OMNI V+, but I did not realize it came with N4PY's verion V.9 mod until I started using it. Now, when you rotate through the MT button you actual
Hi folks - I have a TenTec 6m transverter for sale. I opened the instruction book, but thr kit itself is still sealed in shrinkwrap. I've lost the desire to put up a 6m antenna. Brand new price is 10
Hi folks - I have an OMNI V.9 stacked with Inrads. I use two 400hz Inrads, and a 250. Every once in awhile on 40 m (usually when QRM is up)it sounds as if the mechanical clicks of my ProfiII keyer ar
Author: Tim and Nancy Logan <cyr999@extremezone.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 18:13:59 -0700
Ten Tec filters (installed when I bought my Omni from TenTec less than a year ago)- $60 each plus shipping: #217 (9MHz - 500Hz cw filter); #285 (6MHz - 500Hz cw); #282 (6MHz - 250Hz); #220 (9MHz - 2.
Has anyone ever used these two rigs side by side or owned both? If so I would like to know how you compared the 756 to the OMNI. Thanks. 73/Tim Logan KB7OEX
Hi folks - Carl's incredible mod to my OMNI V allows you to hear the stations you are tuning thru when using the Memory Tune key. It is a great feature. Is this how the OMNI VI+ Memory Tune key works
Hi folks - could anyone out there with a great deal of technical knowledge tell me if it would be possible (or sensible hi hi) to install the guts of my Logikey permanently in my OMNI V.9? If it coul
Sorry folks - the thought of blemishing a primo OMNI V.9 with keyer buttons may have caused some heart failure out there based on emails received. Do not panic - it was a passing moment of insanity f
Author: Tim and Nancy Logan <cyr999@extremezone.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 21:37:19 -0700
Hi folks - I've been a HAM since July, 2000, so that will explain the naivety of my question. I operate cw about 99% of the time because I just got hooked on it (can operate at about 18wpm - but won'
Author: Tim and Nancy Logan <cyr999@extremezone.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 21:41:25 -0700
Hello again folks - Can anyone tell me if the Paragon is much good as a shortwave receiver? How would it compare to something like a Drake R8-B which is intended primarily to be a SW receiver etc? Al
Author: Tim and Nancy Logan <cyr999@extremezone.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 21:06:43 -0700
Hi folks - So many of you offered answers to my query about the RF control etc that it's easier to thank all of you at once. I suppose there was a time when neighborhoods were truly neighborhoods and
Author: Tim and Nancy Logan <cyr999@extremezone.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 22:15:02 -0700
Hi folks - I have an OMNI V with the 250 filter installed and a 500 in the narrow slot. Two Inrad 2.4, 10 pole filters are in the 2.4 slots. Here's my question. When I switch from the 500 to the 250
Author: Tim and Nancy Logan <cyr999@extremezone.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 22:22:16 -0700
OK, OK - how else am I going to learn something if I don't ask :-) What does the term blow-by mean and what does it sound like on a rig? Thank you once again. 73/KB7OEX Tim Logan
Author: Tim and Nancy Logan <cyr999@extremezone.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 08:26:02 -0700
Hi folks - Thanks to all of you who asnwered questions about the 250 filter and the defginition of blow-by. It was very helpful and now my PBT gets used in a much more judicious and helpfuk manner! R
Hi folks - while the rig vs rig discussions are going on, I am curious if anyone has ever had a Kenwood 570GD alongside an Omni V or VI and what did you think? I know it's a $1000 rig vrs a $2500 rig
Author: Tim and Nancy Logan <cyr999@extremezone.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 15:04:24 -0700
Hi folks - For whatever it's worth, I twiddled the dials on the ICOM 756 PRO II down at HRO. When I read about the radio and e-ham comments, I must admit I began to salivate. I tell you what tho - ju