[TenTec] Omni VI first impressions

[James Duffer]

My Omni VI has the "birdies" too, I believe they are originated in the 
digital display.  They have never proved to be something that I would want 
to get rid of my Omni.

Jim, de wd4air


>From: "Steve Hunt" <steve at karinya.net>
>Reply-To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
>To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni VI first impressions
>Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 09:48:50 -0000
>
>Folks,
>
>Thanks for all the helpful comments, both via the List and privately.
>
>Concerning the "Disadvantages":
>
>There was a consensus of replies that the variation of display brightness, 
>and the "key up thump", seem to be "features" that other Omni VIs exhibit.
>
>AGC characteristics, audio quality, and S meter calibration comments were 
>generally under the heading "that's how it is" !
>
>No-one seems to have my non-tunable "heterodyne(s)". I have listened to 
>this a bit more carefully. At warm-up several heterodynes, one after the 
>other, drift quickly through the pass band - all of them are non-tunable. 
>Once the rig is stable, if I'm left with a heterodyne in the pass band it 
>can be tuned out with PBT control. I don't mean "filtered out" with PBT; 
>just a few degrees rotation of the PBT control around its mid position and 
>the heterodyne rapidly moves in audio tone and out of the passband. If the 
>PBT control is more than about 5 degrees away from its central position I 
>never hear a heterodyne at all. I guess this must be some funny mixing 
>product involving the15.3 MHz PBT oscillator.
>
>The heterodynes are clearly audible above background noise, but they don't 
>move the S meter and now I know how to shift them I can probably live with 
>them.
>
>Thanks again for all the comments.
>
>Steve G3TXQ
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Steve Hunt
>   To: TenTec at contesting.com
>   Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 12:03 PM
>   Subject: [TenTec] Omni VI first impressions
>
>   Disadvantages
>
>   1) An annoying heterodyne (non-tunable) in the pass band on all bands, 
>significantly above the noise level.
>   2) I don't like the agc characteristics. Perhaps after 22 years I've 
>just got so used to the Corsair "hang" agc. I find myself turning the RF 
>gain way back on the Omni to stop the noise rising between words - even 
>with the agc in the Slow position
>   3) Audio quality on SSB Rx is not as nice as the Corsair. I've tried 
>various external speakers on the Omni, but the Corsair always sounds better
>   4) The meter and Frequency display is quite dim (even at the highest 
>setting) compared to the Corsair's bright display. And the meter 
>illumination varies with the number of LEDs that are on. For example if you 
>switch VOX off and on the meter illumination varies!
>   5) An annoying "thump" in the speaker going from key down to key up.
>   6) S meter calibration not as accurate as the Corsair. I set the Omni as 
>per the book (S9=50uV, S3=0.3uV) but it's not as accurate as the Corsair 
>in-between. [It probably wouldn't normally worry me, but at the moment I'm 
>doing a lot of a antenna azimuth measurements]
>   _______________________________________________
>   TenTec mailing list
>   TenTec at contesting.com
>   http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
>_______________________________________________
>TenTec mailing list
>TenTec at contesting.com
>http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec

_________________________________________________________________
Talk now to your Hotmail contacts with Windows Live Messenger. 
http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwme0020000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://get.live.com/messenger/overview