there needs to be a comparison of all the top line radios at once, ie:Orion, IC-7800, 756proII, FT1000MP, TS-870 etc. as this will be a more apples to apples comparison. However, I do have a feeling
antenna My opine on that subject is that it is NOT indicative in any way of receiver noise. Rather, it's an artifact of the AGC loop in DSP and the behavior of the system trying to find "something" i
those a long time ago, and my view of their validity has not changed -- particularly in light of what all of us have learned about optimizing weak signal performance in the Orion since that fiasco. G
fling. I may opt out.<< If you don't have money but time, you make decent contest radio from old radios with some modifications (been there done), you can get Elecraft K2, build it, cheap, best value
Interesting to watch the discussion, just like "I like blondes, he likes brunetts" Is B/W LCD display better than LEDs? Sure Is color LCD display better than B/W? Definitely! Is Escalade better than
Your most likely #1 culprit is C15 400 pF. Then #2 and 3 would be C17 and C16. You might want to try to minimize the drift by using say 4x 100 pF or 8x 50 pF caps in parallel for C15. This divides th
In a message dated 10/11/03 6:56:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, KD7EFQ@aol.com writes: He also read K6SE's scathing review from E-ham on the air when K6SE trashed the Orion. Now Regardless of what your
In a message dated 10/23/03 6:49:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, rohre@arlut.utexas.edu writes: No one uses an untuned mobile whip, who desires to get the most power to the antenna and radiated. As in a
In a message dated 9/3/03 9:16:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, RMcGraw@blomand.net writes: Steve is a first class fellow and true gentlemen. He's moving to St. Petersburg Russia and will start a like bu
Yea, right! Radios are made of hardware, particular active devices and specific arrangement of components called design. Software can only do tweaking of variables (switches, "pots", etc.) in the des
On the logic board schematic, top left corner, 1" from the left, 2" from top there is 4 pin connector, unmarked, it is 87 with signals marked from the top: CLOCK, DATA, EN and Gnd connection. Yes, sh
Hi Ken, here is one picture from my "stack", as Orion arrived it was put on the top of TS950SDX, IC775, FT1000D - awaiting immersion and tests with review. It is in JPG format, just add .JPG 73 Yuri,
What you call "factless testing" is a practical test by one of the top hams in low band "business" looking for particular feature of the receivers - ability to discriminate S/N in real life situation
Re: I dunno, I thought reflector "mailman" would figure out and translate, but I guess not. I tried to resubscribe back to reflector, but so far no luck, three tries and zilch luck. True too, but if
If the message wasn't copyrighted by K0CQ, I would have copied it here and replied. Correction. I was thinking of RF amp 6DC6 instead of mixer 6BE6 (better mixer was 6EH7), sorry. Yuri, K3BU
K6SE's endeavours were NOT tests...only the opinion of one guy sitting in a shack somewhere, using his memory to evaluate multiple receivers. This was NOT testing guys--DUH! This is opinion...hello..