Whoa ... I didn't say "no contest wins with TT equip", let not misquote here ... in fact I'll even provide you with one "win" to start your research ... W4PA at the K4JNY station ... look at his num
Not so fast ... where we all get into trouble at times is by making such sweeping type of blanket statements ... a 15m director even if it's on a yagi stacked 10' above say a 10m yagi, MAY skew thin
Whoa ... I'd suggest some time with one of the various antenna textbooks, ARRL or otherwise, and try to unpack that statement, as there's just too many possible ways for that to NOT be true as state
Come on George, What ... Can't stand the heat? B-) Before you play the dodge card here, look again at YOUR WORDS: "It turns out that any wire antenna that is at least 0.3 wavelengths long on a given
Jim, First ... TU for being the 'list mom' ... Second ... Is there a way to 'capture' the archives from the Orion forum? <Lots of good history and ideas have been passed back and forth there ...> Or
There's a nice write-up on Ten-Tec/ON4UN/Orion in the July/August issue of The DX Magazine by Lynn, W4NL. <... and gee wiz, Scott ... a TIE? Did they force that?> 73 Billy AA4NU
Nothing 'wrong' with the Yaesu receiver either ... Let's see how the opinions hold after the "newness" of the Orion wears off. There was a post on other reflectors tonight about a new Orion being re
Hi Jim, and yes ... he was speaking of 160m ... which should be an excellent 'worst case' situation, as to 339 type signals? Actually, there's been several posts of USA<>EU QSOs over the past few mo
Hi ... I love this ... First some say ... oh no ... you can't go by the numbers ... what you want is real world experiences ... put the gear side by side and see what/if you can tell any differences
Glenn, Check out this link ... suspect it's exactly what you are looking for ... http://www.dxengineering.com/bracketcomparison.asp Other pages on their web site have more details/pricing/etc. Anoth
Yawn ... this is what, your 3rd rant this week? TT, F12, and now TT again, complete with the entire message digest included each time. Maybe it's time to lighten up a bit there OM? Sure ... now how
Snail mail just delivered today the May/June 2003 issue of "The DX Magazine" ... on the front cover is a picture of the KA4S/W4NL station with their Orion as the center rig ... 73 Billy AA4NU
Hi Chris, In a word ... NO ... Then again, neither does any other present 1 piece of gear. Can you CQ on 20m while listening on 40m at the same time? Nope ... Check the archives for past discussion o
Excellent news Tommy! How will the new interface deal with the MAIN/SUB switching issues? Or will it be like the "norm" that most use ... follow the MAIN only? from the Orion manual PDF file ... the
Tommy, Thanks for the update ... but just to make sure ... this ONLY controls the MAIN rcvr/xmtr, correct ... NOT the SUB ... nor does this include the 2nd set of amp keying/etc. options yet? The int
Hopefully, in a few more days, as in post-Dayton ... we'll know the real story <size of roofing filters, price, etc.> and the facts can then be confirmed and accurate comparisons be made. In the mean
Over the years, the Heil headphones have used several different elements ... that may explain why some Heil users are having good success, and others are not. The same situation occurs with other br
I'll toss this one into the fray of the Orion verses IC785 ... Look at the IC785 brochure ... look closely at the both the front and back of the rig ... next look even closer for ANY indications of h
Before I improved the station/house grounding here, that 723 chip would be the 'sacrifice' during surges and such ... to the point of I put a socket in the Astrons supplies so I could R&R the chip q
BEWARE Mike ... one of my friend's xYL was doing the same thing here. But ... oh my ... did he mess up BIG TIME ... he thought she was just counting the pieces of equipment ... OH NO ... she was cou