I've worked SM5BSZ off of the moon. He hears "extremely" well with his
configuration. At the time I was only running 150 watts to a 10 element
yagi.
For what its worth, I hear well too. The Tentec Omni VI+ and the Down East
Microwave transverter does a great job for a simple single yagi station.
73
Bob K4TAX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Meahan" <wmeahan@wa8tzg.org>
To: "George W5YR" <w5yr@att.net>
Cc: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Split operation, etc.
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:06:17 -0600
> "George, W5YR" <w5yr@att.net> wrote:
>
>
> > The notion that a software radio is forever with only occasional
> > software upgrades is a pleasant one but one whose time has not yet
> > arrived - unless the ORION is a *real* surprise!
> >
>
> If you've got the cash (LOTS of cash) you can buy one today from
> Rockwell-Collins. They have a model that is essentially an RF amp
> followed by an A/D followed by a custom DSP. You could buy several ORION
> and OMNI units for the price of one of those puppies, though :-)
>
> While I will grant that the current crop of commercial
> "software-defined" radios are only partially "there" in that everything
> up to the (low) last IF stage is conventional analog radio but the last
> IF, filters, detector, (some of) the AGC, the audio processing et. al.
> *are* truly "software-defined" in the DSP. SM5BSZ has a receiver he uses
> for EME, MS and other weak-signal work that consists of an RF amp (for
> the noise figure), an image-free mixer very much like KK7B's R2 and a
> hot-rod PC sound card. Everything is done in software on the PC (under
> Linux) but could just as easily be done in a dedicated DSP. George, the
> ORION could easily be similar to that!
>
> More info on the Linrad project (SM5BSZ) at
> http://ham.te.hik.se/~sm5bsz/linuxdsp/linrad.htm--
> Bill Meahan WA8TZG wmeahan@wa8tzg.org
> "Always do right. This will gratify some people
> and astonish the rest." -- Mark Twain
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