[TenTec] Omni VI+ destined as a classic?

Duane A Calvin ac5aa at juno.com
Mon Jul 19 14:13:59 EDT 2004


A reed relay is used in the VI+ for T/R switching, but it is very quiet,
and I have no idea why someone would say a rig is "not QSK" if they can
hear a relay.  One has no bearing on the other.  

        73,  Duane


On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 07:09:25 -1000 Ken Brown <ken.d.brown at verizon.net>
writes:
> >
> >
> >But QSK (in my book) it did not have. Neither does the OMNI VI+!
> >The Argonaut V does...and so does the Elecraft K1.
> >If I hear a relay, I am always thinking if it is gonna click before 
> I start
> >sending again...That is what I consider non-QSK.
> >  
> >
> I don't hear a relay with my Omni VI, and my hearing is still pretty 
> 
> good. I consider my Omni VI to have the best QSK I have ever used. I 
> 
> have not operated an Argonaut or K1. I wonder if you had the 
> "amplifier 
> relay" turned on unnecessarily in your Omni VI.
> 
> DE N6KB
> 
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Duane Calvin, AC5AA
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