Does that mean "don't bother me with facts, I've made up my mind?"
Tom presented his experience. He's a damn good engineer, so we should
pay attention to it.
Much earlier in this thread, I observed that most serious contesting
stations using more than one transmitter will have bandpass filters in
the RX path, which will, for all practical purposes, eliminate overload
from signals that are far out of band, but they won't eliminate overload
from IN-band signals. Two examples of this are 1) two transmitters on
the same band, as is commonly done by serious competitors in 160M
contests and by multi-ops in DX contests; and nearly in-band broadcast
signals, as on 40M and 20M.
Yes, a few contesters are beginning to use the higher quality SDRs (they
currently own and use Flex 6700s). One group, near me, is working on a
multi-multi site on a mountain peak in the 3,000 ft range, which they
plan to operate by remote control. There are serious engineers in the
group and I suspect they're spending serious bucks on the station, so
there's no doubt that it will include serious bandpass filtering. :)
I suspect that remote control and the ability to see a bandscope over a
robust remote link has something to do with their choice of radios.
73, Jim K9YC
On Mon,10/19/2015 8:47 AM, MIKE DURKIN wrote:
SPAM !!!!!!
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