Hi, Our club is considering buying a Jupiter. I have never seen one, let alone operated one. We plan to get and show the company video on it. Other rigs under consideration are an ICOM 746PRO and a K
My experience with the Jupe on FD was not too good as far as receiving in a multiple transmitter enviroment. I would stay with the K2. Another solution , though not too popular, would be to have each
alone rigs charles, since tentec has the 30 trial money-back guarrantee, you could actually get one and do an A/B/C side by side comparision. may be even simulate a field day by having other club mem
I have had the Jupiter for about 2 months and thus far have not felt the need to look at the manual. It is so simple to operate it is hard to believe. The DSP NR is amazing as far as strong signals a
The name of the game on Field Day is cleanliness of RF output and a bulletproof receiver. IMO, the only good choices are the newer generation Omni's, the Orion, and the Elecraft K2 family. The K2/10
One point I forgot to address. The K2 is not as easy to operate as the Omni or 746 families. The original post correctly noted, for example, that the DSP system scores very poorly for user-friendline
Jim, Tnx for the input. Some comments on your comments. On CW, some of us locally who have K2/100s have difficulty in seeing any improvement in operation by using DSP on CW, other than the improved f
Racked I did just under 1,000 Q's on mine, in about 17 hours. At my home QTH, in the middle of Chicago, I have a moderately high noise level that the K2 Noise Blanker won't touch (the Omni V NB does)
K9YC: contest rig in the world. Check out the K2's close-in IMD performance at <5 kHz spacings: http://www2.arrl.org/members-only/prodrev/pdf/lab/k2.pdf (page 21) http://www.sherweng.com/Dayton_2004/
OM Bill, Inrad filter is the 762? 73 de Al, W5IZ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ______
W5IZ: Well it was my home brew 352 that Sherwood tested...so that's one better than a 762. ;-) Yes, I meant the 762. 73, Bill W4ZV _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list