"Dale L. Martin" wrote:
> Greetings y'all!
>
> I know my major SS CW QRP competition (W4PA) will shake in his boots knowing
> this, but I just gotta share this with the list.
>
> The Omni VI I bought from Rich Lucchesi, WA2RQY, arrived on my front doorstep
> late last week.
>
> After getting it unpacked (whew! What a job, Rich!!) and on the operating
> desk,
> I did some preliminary checks. FB!
>
> The next day, after work, I rushed home, pulled the Delta II and it's power
> supply off the desk, and put the Omni VI in place. I connected the PC and
> bpf/antenna/keying control box cables and did some more testing. FB!
>
> I had to leave for Houston. ARRL DX CW was underway...boy! Did I hate to have
> to leave.
>
> Saturday morning, I got up, fired up the radios, computer, hooked up antennas
> and ran through a good checkout of the two radios (oh yeah, my first radio is
> an Omni VI (with upgrade 3). This was waaaayyy cool. Two Omni VI's
> side-by-side.
>
> I couldn't spend as much time in ARRL DX CW as I wanted, but what time I did
> showed me that (1) Rich's Omni VI performed like a champ, and (2) I still have
> a lot to learn about two-radio contesting. For 15 hours of QRP operation, I
> made 463 QSO's with 185 mults. So cool!
>
> I noticed a couple of things:
> 1. I definitely need a 500 Hz filter in the second Omni VI (285 -- anyone
> have
> one they want to sell me?). A lot of my operating of my original Omni VI is
> in
> 1.8kHz filter bandwidth. However, there are a number of times during a
> contest
> when I'm dropping down to 500Hz.
> 2. My Model 305 remote vfo control has been an ergonomic lifesaver for my
> original Omni VI. Not having to reach up from the keyboard to the radio to
> tune around has been a real blessing. Not being able to use it with the
> second
> Omni VI really left a void.
> 3. The nearly identical layout of the radio controls on the two radios and
> their similar 'sound' made operating much more comfortable and consistent.
>
> This evening, I fixed item number 2, above. I added a DPDT toggle switch and
> a
> second cable to connect to the second Omni VI. It works like a champ. I
> can't
> wait for the next contest to try it out.
>
> 73,
> Dale Martin, KG5U
> kg5u@hal-pc.org
> http://www.hal-pc.org/~kg5u
>
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I guess being new to Ten-Tec (the new rig has not yet arrived), Can you set up
an
outboard reciever to work split with the Paragon II or other newer rigs ??
Rick
N4ASX
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