Hi Rick,
Actually, I've done a fair amount of HF operating from G3LDI's place in
Norfolk. Roger then had a TH6DXX (since replaced with a SteppIR) at 110
feet. Most of that was on 20, though, which as you say is very different from
40. He's since gotten interested in 160, but his biggest problem there is
local noise rather than strong stations, even though he's on 7 acres out in
the country.
It's fairly rural here in the desert too, with the nearest semi-active ham
about 5 miles away. There's also a guy about 2 miles away who likes to
ragchew with his buddies on 160 SSB running a KW, when I am trying to work DX
about 40 kHz down. The O II handles both of them, unless the hardware NB
is on.
73 Ray W2RS
In a message dated 5/22/2013 3:59:01 P.M. GMT Standard Time, Rick@DJ0IP.de
writes:
When I win the lottery Ray, I'll buy you one too.
I have no idea if this would even happen in the states.
You don't have the problem with shortwave broadcast stations that we have
here in Europe.
Sure, you can hear the carriers from some of them, but they're pegging the
S-Meter over here.
Also it has gotten a lot better since I ran that test 6 years ago.
Most of the shortwave broadcast stations have now moved out of the 40m
band,
and we have gained another 100 kHz of band.
Our band used to end at 7.100, now it goes up to 7.200.
In addition, it was very dependent on which way the beam was pointed.
If the beam was pointing between northeast and southeast, all of the radios
were crunched except the Orion's first RX and even the Orion began to hear
the phantoms on its first RX, but they were weak.
If we rotated it towards the west the Orion's first RX was completely
clean.
The others were still crunched.
I guess you just have to operate from this side of the pond to believe it.
73
Rick, DJ0IP
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Rsoifer@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 7:39 PM
To: tentec@contesting.com; ac5aa@ac5aa.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] RX366
Judging from some of the comments, I must be fortunate to live in an area
with no strong local signals. The only times when either receiver in my
Orion II folds are when the hardware noise blanker is on. When I turn it
off, the receiver comes back. I wish I had that 3 element 40m beam up
105
feet, though ;-)
73 Ray W2RS
In a message dated 5/21/2013 12:46:01 A.M. GMT Standard Time,
k8mn@frontiernet.net writes:
That's the way I use the sub-receiver as well. I have a local friend who
bought the OII with the 366 installed and, after having listened to it a
number of times, I can't see a reason to purchase it.
73,
Dave Heil K8MN
On 5/20/2013 23 32, Duane Calvin wrote:
> Sounds like you got it right, Ray. I have a slightly different view.
> I find the stock subRX to be fine for DXing because I use the MainRX
> to
listen
> to the DX. After all, he's the one getting clobbered by the cops,
> tuner-uppers, QRMers, etc. The SubRX is great for finding who's
> calling
him
> and where the pileup is. Any more, it seems the worst place to call
> is
on
> top of the last worked station because you and 20 others are in that
> same spot. The SubRX is great for lining up the Transmit VFO in the
> pileup, I find.
>
> For what it's worth - we all do it our own way!
>
> 73, Duane
>
>
> Duane Calvin, AC5AA
> Austin, Texas
> www.ac5aa.com
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