W4PA added:
>I'll say this apologetically, politely, but there is no way a
>TS850S-class radio stacks up to an Omni-VI under contest conditions.
Omni-VI's EMC makes it hard to use in "warm" RF environment.
Absence of bypass caps on rear panel connectors is hard to
understand.
DSP makes birdies that vary with PBT & degrades with temperature.
Instead of fixing, radio was bought back by factory despite demo of
problems by not-exactly-cheap IDD & sending spec-an plots showing
the birdies.
My Omni-VI was not good. I would take a 520 over one any day &
performance would be chalk & cheese, matey.
Perhaps built on Friday afternoon? Interesting to see these one-off
exceptions to comments posted here on a number of radios.
73, 9M6BrettGraham
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