I have not owned a Omni 7, but I have owned two K3s over the past 12 months. I sold the first K3 after trying to figure out how to use it. Probably had it about two weeks. The Second K3 was fully loa
Nice info, Toby. My problem is, I'm both; rag chewer and contester. But your other good point is something I need to consider. Like you, I sometimes don't turn on the rig for weeks or even months at
The Omni VII receiver is excellent at pulling out weak signals amoung very strong ones. I really doubt you will ever find a situation where the K3 will be better at this. Look at the specs for it at
If you're running in a cw contest and a loud station nests 500hz away, the K3 will be significantly more immune than the O7. There's just no two ways around that fact. The same can be said if you're
Carl, you must be a mind reader. I was just thinking to myself, "I wonder how many times in my life I might experience that the QRM was just right such that the K3 would hear something the OM7 can't
I think a nice Drake C line with Sherwood fully modified R-4C is the ticket... Lee Nice info, Toby. My problem is, I'm both; rag chewer and contester. But your other good point is something I need to
But only if you find an R4C which has the tube as 2nd mixer! Don't take the one with the transistor as 2nd mixer! I think a nice Drake C line with Sherwood fully modified R-4C is the ticket... Lee st
I fiddled with the K-3 at first but haven't looked at the manual in a year now! It just chugs along but I don't fiddle with the DSP noise reduction and just have it set at 1, never did anything with
Hi Rick, "full power into 3:1 SWR" is just a myth. Did you ever read such a claim made by TenTec? There is nothing inside TenTec transceivers to make them to DELIVER full power into a mismatched load
I did buy the fan for my Orion and Omni 7 but for a different reason, if I ever run RTTY with it. RTTY is an occasional thing with me :-) K-3 fan never seems to run but you can set it to slow, medium
As always Sinisa, you are correct. Nice to hear from you again! The one place I have seen a difference is when trying to tune a linear. While varying the power on any Ten-Tec, and tuning the amp, it
In fact it is driviing the load with 36 watts in your example. When the wattmeter shows forward power of 100 watts and reflected power of 40 watts into a high swr, because the load is not 50 ohms, th
Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:35:33 -0500
No, a true wattmeter (Bruene design) takes the vector product of voltage AND current to produce DC proportional to power. 73, Jerry, K0CQ _______________________________________________ TenTec mailin
So does that mean the TT rig is better after all in that scenario Carl? In fact it is driviing the load with 36 watts in your example. When the wattmeter shows forward power of 100 watts and reflecte
I said traditional wattmeter. I am referring to inexpensive wattmeters that only measure voltage. Carl Moreschi N4PY 121 Little Bell Dr Hays, NC 28635 www.n4py.com ___________________________________
Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@weather.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:16:46 -0500
By traditional you mean the coupled wire like a monomatch? Commonly used for CB meters. It is directional because it combines capacitive and inductive coupling and produces a DC output proportional t
Your thinking is correct, apart from those 40 W being actually 36 W (60 % of the forward power). The technical fact is that the only difference between a TenTec TX and, say, a Kenwood TX is lack of c
I don't think that is true. It does not have one less safety feature. My Omni VII -IS- protected. It shuts down entirely if SWR is too high, whereas the JA rigs lower power until they get comfortable
We were talking about the old Omni's and Tritons, etc. They didn't do that. What Ten-Tec did was use an 18A circuit breaker to prevent too much current flow. It basically accomplished the same thing,
QRM.... The K3 beats about anything except the high end rigs. Hi Rick, Correction...the K3 beats *everything* in this situation...including all "high end" (i.e. more expensive) rigs. You can configur