I'm not saying there won't be situations where the signal will be more comfortable to listen to by reducing RF gain, I'm just saying that from a pure physics point of view, the signal to noise ratio
Back around 1980, I used to run a Heath HW-8, CW only 2 watt radio, mobile in my car. I would routinely work a European driving to work each morning from North Carolina. QRP works! Carl Moreschi N4PY
Year's ago I also had a Gonset GSB-100. It was a great radio and I worked lots of DX with it's 60 watts. I used it with a Collins 75A1. That was my first real station back in 1976. Carl Moreschi N4PY
Sounds like RF feedback. This can be a tough one to figure out. Carl Moreschi N4PY 58 Hogwood Rd Louisburg, NC 27549 www.n4py.com On 2/24/2014 5:29 PM, Scott Shepard wrote: I am going thru a variety
The Omni VII, Omni VI, and Icom 7800 all seem to be about a tie on the Sherwood test data. The Omni VII is an excellent radio and has much better receive audio than the pinched audio on the Omni VI.
I think the extra BDR3 for the inrad filter is best suited for 160 meter CW DXing where the DX station is only 2 khz away from the callers. The callers 2 khz away on 160 can easily be S9+30 and the D
The band crystals may be aging. I found my 40 meter crystal worked best if I moved it about 2 khz from where it was supposed to be and then used the N4PY calibration procedure to bring it back it. Yo
There are several ways to add a panadapter to the Eagle. The least expensive is to get a softrock ensemble II. See the link below. http://fivedash.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&product
I'm not sure about the software you need if you go with the Softrock Lite II running off the 9 mhz IF. Carl Moreschi N4PY 58 Hogwood Rd Louisburg, NC 27549 www.n4py.com - R. Eric Sluder W9WLW Mike, G
Because relays don't cause receive overload problems when very strong signals saturate the pin diodes. Carl Moreschi N4PY 58 Hogwood Rd Louisburg, NC 27549 www.n4py.com Kim N5OP "People that make mus
The Orion and Orion II have shown a history of problems related to corrosion building up on the cable connections in the radio. These connections should have been gold plated but they are not. In par
Elecraft had the same problem with the K3. But they now do a free upgrade to gold contacts. Carl Moreschi N4PY 58 Hogwood Rd Louisburg, NC 27549 www.n4py.com On 3/19/2014 8:08 PM, Bob McGraw - K4TAX
I believe that is the exact point where the 2.4 hardware filter gets put into the receive path. About 2.4 khz, it's not in the path. There's a filter centering adjustment for each filter and that wou
I guess I remembered incorrectly on the Orion II. Thanks Barry for straightening me out on this one. Carl Moreschi N4PY 58 Hogwood Rd Louisburg, NC 27549 www.n4py.com There's a menu adjustment to cen
Rick, Even though the Eagle only has a USB port, Windows makes that appear as a normal comport. So any program that is written for the Orion, can work with the Eagle for simple things like logging. T
Rick, I think your the one that needs to go easy here. John is one of the nicest people I know. Carl Moreschi N4PY 58 Hogwood Rd Louisburg, NC 27549 www.n4py.com It's all about preparation. Generally
A mod would be needed since the Orion does not have receive loop connections. This is exactly the mod that is done to the Omni VII by adding the two wires from Tentec. But Tentec did not put in these
You know the Omni Rig guy probably thought that because the Eagle uses USB, it did not make a comport. If he knew it still appeared as a comport, I bet he would add the commands. After a bandwidth co
Rick, This is all too outdated a way to make a transceiver now. The new best way is to create 100% digital data right at the antenna connection. Then everything is done in software. The new Flex 6500
NO the 6500 does not behave like the 5000. The 6500 has a clip point of S9 + 80 DB. That's a HUGE signal. Carl Moreschi N4PY 58 Hogwood Rd Louisburg, NC 27549 www.n4py.com For all of us operating at