- 1. Re: [TenTec] Rigs at WRTC (score: 1)
- Author: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 19:35:27 -1000
- "The BDR3 of a radio only has to be good enough." (Implied: it doesn't have to be the best radio to win.) Strange, I thought that the best radios were the ones with the greatest number of knobs and b
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-07/msg00618.html (9,504 bytes)
- 2. Re: [TenTec] Rigs at WRTC (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob McGraw - K4TAX" <RMcGraw@Blomand.net>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:57:55 -0500
- This discussion by Jim, Rick, Carl and others is VERY interesting regarding WRTC. The list of radios, brands and models and the number of each, including the logging programs used, adds tremendous cr
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-07/msg00626.html (10,756 bytes)
- 3. Re: [TenTec] SOFTWARE at WRTC (score: 1)
- Author: K8JHR <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:36:48 -0400
- I don't see a serious causal relationship here. I doubt anyone selected his competition radio because it works with a particular logger ... instead, I expect they selected their favorite rig, and the
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-07/msg00627.html (9,713 bytes)
- 4. Re: [TenTec] SOFTWARE at WRTC (score: 1)
- Author: "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:04:04 +0200
- I'm not sure what a "serious casual relationship" is. I think you'll find most participants are also members of contest teams and they tend to run what other team members run. As such, this can poten
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-07/msg00628.html (10,706 bytes)
- 5. Re: [TenTec] SOFTWARE at WRTC (score: 1)
- Author: Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw@verizon.net>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:28:59 -0500 (CDT)
- So you would sacrifice (IMHO, having used both) the better of the two radios for the sake of the team? ...granted, both are excellent rigs, so it may not be a HUGE sacrifice. Still... 73, ron w3wn I'
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-07/msg00629.html (9,911 bytes)
- 6. [TenTec] SOFTWARE at WRTC (score: 1)
- Author: John Henry <jhenry@tentec.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:48:41 -0400
- Rick is right, there are a lot of teams that run their contesting on the weekends based upon their contest software, period. At the time they chose the rig, they also chose the software logging progr
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-07/msg00630.html (11,092 bytes)
- 7. Re: [TenTec] SOFTWARE at WRTC (score: 1)
- Author: "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:48:58 +0200
- Ron, that was perhaps a poor choice of words. I regularly get invited to one of our many teams. I think that's because most of the guys remember the old Rick and don't realize that I'm an old man now
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-07/msg00631.html (12,267 bytes)
- 8. Re: [TenTec] SOFTWARE at WRTC (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:53:42 -0700
- Duh! That's when contests occur. based upon their contest software, period. At the time they chose the rig, they also chose the software logging program they wanted to use, and standardized on it, It
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-07/msg00632.html (14,133 bytes)
- 9. Re: [TenTec] SOFTWARE at WRTC (score: 1)
- Author: Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw@verizon.net>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 13:26:40 -0500 (CDT)
- Poor choice on your part or mine? (Not trying to give you a hard time, I just want to make sure I didnt misspeak) That touch of kidding-around aside Of course, what is the best radio is a very subjec
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-07/msg00633.html (17,565 bytes)
- 10. Re: [TenTec] SOFTWARE at WRTC (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:04:25 -0700
- borrow it As to filters -- In modern radios, IF filters are done in DSP, and can be set to any bandwidths and shapes that are provided by the firmware. The K3 and KX3 can be set for any IF bandwidth
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-07/msg00634.html (12,359 bytes)
- 11. [TenTec] SOFTWARE at WRTC (score: 1)
- Author: John Henry <jhenry@tentec.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:15:17 -0400
- Not sure what was meant by the Duh!. -- * Duh! That's when contests occur. -- Of course we all know that contests occur on the weekend. Duh..... Can you elaborate why you picked only part of that sen
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-07/msg00635.html (8,831 bytes)
- 12. Re: [TenTec] Rigs at WRTC (score: 1)
- Author: k6jek <k6jek@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 13:29:38 -0700
- I thought it was like real estate, location, location, location. Skill and luck are needed of course but where your are matters a lot, doesn't it? Jon
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-07/msg00638.html (11,493 bytes)
- 13. Re: [TenTec] Rigs at WRTC (score: 1)
- Author: K8JHR <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:40:25 -0400
- 1) The older Flex 5000 and 3000 suffer from what Rob calls the "Field day problem". This is when very strong signals from very close stations cause the front end to collapse. == Maybe the Eagle is t
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-07/msg00640.html (12,219 bytes)
- 14. Re: [TenTec] Rigs at WRTC (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:00:24 -0700
- The WRTC operators chose their radios based on years of contesting experience, not for one contest alone. The WRTC competitors are all first rate operators -- to even BE there the #1 op on each team
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-07/msg00642.html (11,400 bytes)
- 15. Re: [TenTec] Rigs at WRTC (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Stricker via TenTec <tentec@contesting.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:12:06 -0700
- By no stretch of the imagination am I a contester, let alone a serious contester. I dabble in all the SSB contests, however, and my experience has been that once a radio has a minimum level of perfo
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-07/msg00644.html (9,524 bytes)
- 16. Re: [TenTec] SOFTWARE at WRTC (score: 1)
- Author: "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 23:24:33 +0200
- All good observations, Jim. One thing you nailed spot-on is that many EU OM don't have the possibility to have good antennas at home so they must go somewhere. However there aren't enough big contest
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-07/msg00645.html (14,880 bytes)
- 17. Re: [TenTec] SOFTWARE at WRTC (score: 1)
- Author: "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 23:43:44 +0200
- SRI Ron, you are WAY OUT THERE! First of all, the WIN-TEST authors didn't write their software for any rig. They wrote an API for omnirig. Omnirig gave them compatibility to a hundred radios. (roughl
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-07/msg00646.html (20,496 bytes)
- 18. Re: [TenTec] Rigs at WRTC (score: 1)
- Author: "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 23:55:39 +0200
- James, noise and IMD are two totally different things. The Eagle has slightly worse IMD than the TS-590 but the Eagle is not noisy. The TS-590 generates broadband noise across the entire HF spectrum.
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-07/msg00650.html (12,420 bytes)
- 19. Re: [TenTec] Rigs at WRTC (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob McGraw - K4TAX" <RMcGraw@Blomand.net>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:59:50 -0500
- One point on radio selection that I suggest trying. From a generally accepted contest radio selection, based on the Sherwood Receiver test data, I encourage anyone to import the current chart into EX
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-07/msg00652.html (12,020 bytes)
- 20. Re: [TenTec] Rigs at WRTC (score: 1)
- Author: George Fritkin via TenTec <tentec@contesting.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:33:37 -0700
- Didn't some one say OPERATOR!!!! George, W6GF Sent from my iPad
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-07/msg00659.html (12,610 bytes)
This search system is powered by
Namazu