[CQ-Contest] Re: 2-Radio Interference
Tom Rauch
W8JI at contesting.com
Mon Dec 25 02:02:10 EST 2000
Hi Dave,
I think you have hit the nail on the head. Has anyone here found
any really clean radios?
> This is not a front-end overload OR Harmonic problem.
>
> All synthesized radios transmit wide-band noise. The noise is
> real transmitted noise, and can be cured only by putting a filter,
> such as a stub or bandpass filter on the TRANSMITTER.
I'm facing the same thing trying to duplex on 160 meters. I need TX
noise to be at least 80-90 dB down.
My FT1000 is poor, most of the noise is from a dual gate MOSFET
used in the transmitter as the ALC controlled stage, and the rest
is from the synthesizer.
FT-1000MP's I've tested are about the same, except on occasion
there is a really dirty one. Some create broadband hash I can hear
on signals coming from several hundred miles or more distant! Of
course if it is in the synthesizer, it appears on strong (otherwise
clean) receive signals.
Looking at different rigs, my IC751A's and a IC781 are about 15-20
dB quieter than my 1000D but still not quiet enough to allow me to
get a second station into my noise floor. An old Drake T4XC totally
quiet, as was a Ten Tec Omni 6 plus.
Stubs and filters have too little Q for close-spaced operation, but
would work well with different band radios. I need a cheap quiet
radio with a digital readout.
73, Tom W8JI
w8ji at contesting.com
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