[TenTec] FD & O-II

[Charles Harpole]

Of course, the O II is better than the 7000 !

The ORION and #2 are the best radios in 

mid range budgets in ham radio.  The K3 took

many "suggestions" from the orions and 

it is vy good too.  I think the original Orion

is the best buy today in used radios.  73


Charles Harpole


k4vud at hotmail.com





> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:31:51 -0500
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> From: cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net
> Subject: [TenTec] FD & O-II
>
> I took my O-II to FD and used it at the CW station. There were only
> two of us, but the other guy (who has an IC746) loved the O-II. Once
> i showed him how to set the AGC, he really liked it. For better or
> worse, we heard lots of stations that we couldn't work.
>
> The SSB station was using an IC-7000, and at 200 KHz spacing, the
> phase noise completely wiped out the band. We could even hear that on
> harmonically-related bands. It certainly wasn't overlaod, but real
> pahse noise. I looked up the QST reviews and at these spacings, the
> '7000 is typically 10-20 dB worse in tx phase noise than the O II.
>
> They appeared to not have the same problem from us, so I assume that
> the O II tx is quite a bit cleaner at those spacings the the '7000 tx.
>
> Anyone ever had more that one Orion (or any stripe) at FD? If so, did
> you have interference probelms?
>
> 73,
>
> Kim Elmore N5OP
>
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