[TenTec] Ten Tec Omni D, Why so quiet ?

[Mike Hyder --N4NT--]

You're learning....

73, Mike N4NT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Newberry Gary" <gnn01 at yahoo.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 2:01 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Ten Tec Omni D, Why so quiet ?


> 
> I hve a friend that's a recent convert to Ten Tec rigs
> mainly because of their quiet receiver. I hadn't paid
> much attention to it until this morning. On my Yaesu
> FT-857 ( an Icom 706 MKIIG clone ) On the Yaesu it
> sounded like there was a thunderstorm in the not to
> distant area with static noise levels around S5 or S6.
> I fired up the Omni D (Series C)on the same antenna
> and it was as quiet as a church mouse, the S meter
> would drop to almost it's resting state and the noisy
> Midcars net I was listening to sounded almost like a 2
> meter FM station at full quieting. I know the Omni
> isn't insensitive as I've had it back to Ten Tec for
> an alignment within the past couple of months. 
> 
> I've got some 120 KV lines and a substation about 500
> feet behind my house and wonder if for some reason the
> Yaesu is sensitive to that noise and the Omni isn't ?
> 
> I just wonder if someone has a good logical
> explanation, I'm in Flint, Mich and worked a mobile
> running 5 watts in Mass. on a poor condition 40 meter
> CW band and I doubt with the noisy receiver of the
> '857 I would have heard him at all.
> 
> I just wonder if anyone has any technical explanations
> for this ? Needless to say I'm not going to part with
> the old Omni D anytime in the near future.
> 
> Thanks in advance 
> 
> Gary K8IQ