[CQ-Contest] FT1000D interface/rroofing fitler

[Jeff Stai]

At 04:46 PM 6/4/2006, Van K7VS wrote:
>Well, I purchased one of these after reading the rave reviews and quite 
>honestly saw very little improvment on one of FT1000D's.  Did I miss 
>something along the way???  I was going to buy another for my other one and 
>decided not to as didn't see much if any improvement while a/b'ing the two 
>receivers side by side.  Van, K7VS....maybe on some of the other units it 
>does make an appreciable improvement. 

hi Van - I put roofers into both my 1000Ds. You will not see any improvement under 'casual' conditions. However, I saw a dramatic improvement under contest/crowded conditions. The biggest improvement was in pulling weak to average signals out of the muck. This improvement occurred for all modes - phone, cw, rtty. On rtty I am especially happy because one of those darn robots can fire up right next to me and they no longer obliterate the other stations...

- jeff wk6i


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