Bottom line - OMNI D series C is a wonderful $300 transceiver to this day !
Best regards - Bry Carling
> On Aug 22, 2014, at 3:50 AM, "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de> wrote:
>
> How good are they really?
> (long story)
>
> I used one on a big Multi-Multi SSB Contest DX-pedition to Liechtenstein in
> 1988.
> See: http://www.dj0ip.de/my-expeditions/hb0csz-1988/
> We were divided into teams with 2 to 4 people per band. I was on the 2-man
> 80m team and each team had two transceivers, one for run and the other for
> hunting multies (or today we call it S&P).
>
> ALL 12 stations were set up inside the same room in a large cabin near the
> top of the highest mountain in Liechtenstein. The noise inside the room was
> terrible, but the heat generated by the rigs was very welcome on that cold
> winter weekend.
>
> Each team had one set of band filters which was used by the run station. We
> had to build them ourselves because they weren't readily available back
> then. None of the S&P rigs had band filters.
>
> During operations, sitting side by side with the 80m run station (Drake C
> Line + MLA-2500 amp), I was doing S&P on my Omni C. I had no amp. The run
> stn. was on a vertically polarized mono-delta-loop, I was using a vertical
> mounted to the guard rail of the ski lift. I worked a ton of multi's
> barefoot, including Australia, all found while listening at the same time
> the run station was transmitting a bit higher in the same band.
> AND ALL found while the other 5 stations were transmitting high power out of
> the same room on other bands.
>
> All other bands used some sort of JA transceiver as a multi radio.
> All had problems trying to hear anything at all.*
>
> * There must be a message there somewhere.
>
> As a result of the inability to hear with the multi stations (except mine),
> we changed our tactic after that.
>
> One month later for the CW section of CQWW, we went to Luxembourg (LX8A).
> There we set up a second QTH located 10km away from the transmitting
> station. We set up our 6 multi-hunting transceivers there. We did not
> transmit from the second location. Each of the 6-band teams had its own VHF
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