[CQ-Contest] Contesting Compendium - help needed

[Richard Detweiler]

I would be interested to know the radios that were experiencing these de-sense problems.

 

can you tell us?

Best Wishes
Richard
K5SF




 
> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 10:45:26 -0500
> From: nss at mwt.net
> To: CQ-Contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contesting Compendium - help needed
> 
> How about Old Tube Rigs,
> 
> After participating in Field Day this past weekend, I dearly miss my 
> old Drake TR-4. No bells and whistles, no special filters etc.
> 
> But as an example, when I had it three stations could be on 40 at once 
> and that old Drake would care less.
> 
> The 40 cw station and the "Novice" (now GOTA) as well as a 40 SSB 
> station all could be on at once and never even know it.
> 
> This past weekend every station I visited all suffered from front end 
> overload.
> 
> the cw station could hear tyhe desencs from the ssb station on the same 
> band, and the ssb station sounded all the time like a backwards 2 
> merter aurora qso was happening.
> 
> It was horrid and shameful that a vintage 60's rig could out perform 
> rigs that cost ten times as much that are modern,
> 
> Tis Sad,, truly sad
> 
> Joe WB9SBD
> 
> Pete Smith wrote:
> 
> >Are you running an older Icom or Yaesu radio? On of the most popular 
> >pages in the Contesting Compendium is 
> >http://wiki.contesting.com/index.php/Category:Older_radios , but 
> >right now the only radios that are discussed there are Kenwoods. Get 
> >your two cents in, and tell people why you love your IC-765 or 
> >FT-1000D. and while you're there, take a look at the Table of 
> >Contents <http://wiki.contesting.com/index.php/Table_of_Contents> and 
> >see what other topics you "wrote the book on", and contribute your 
> >expertise to the contesting community.
> >
> >We're also looking for "talent scouts", to help us find the best 
> >contesting knowledge wherever it is. Did you archive e-mails from 
> >this reflector, or towertalk, or RFI, that you think are really, 
> >really good stuff? Why not send them along to me? See an great 
> >article on a web page? Remember a good one from NCJ? Tell me about 
> >it and I'll get the author's permission to make it available on the Compendium.
> >
> >Enough rhetorical questions. The success or failure of the 
> >Contesting Compendium is up to you.
> >
> >73, Pete N4ZR
> >New Articles Daily - the Contesting Compendium at http://wiki.contesting.com
> >The World Contest Station Database, updated daily at www.conteststations.com
> >The Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net
> >
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