[TenTec] More ARRL Lab Data

[John Rippey]

The October review of the FT-2000D in QST, now posted, contains an  
article by Mike Tracy outlining further refinements in the Lab's  
testing regimen.  Oh, brother, he's leaving me behind.

What comes through for me in the October review is that the FT-2000,  
along with the PRO III of the DSP rigs, has to labor long and hard to  
equal the IMD3 results for the discontinued Mark V, and do not equal  
the IMD3 of an unmodified OMNI VI.

So if one wants to remain analog, you can go with an INRAD roofing  
filter mod and be well ahead of the game.  Of course, there are  
refinements in the DSP rigs that make them (perhaps) more fun to use,  
but the basics have yet to be bettered. (Exceptions, ORION and  
IC-7800, but then you get with these high-performing rigs the  
troublesome DSP/AGC artifacts R. Sherwood has noted.)

Does the OMNI VII avoid the DSP artifacts bug?

73,
John, W3ULS