[TenTec] FD & O-II

[rfulco at bellsouth.net]

 I took my newly purchased Orion1 out to FD..I actually only have an hour or so on the rig. N5WA came out and set a few agc based on his 5 yrs with his Orion. The Orion never knew our other 2 stations were across the field. I had similiar experience's with my new rig. Had all 6 filters. KA5M has an Orion2. 3 out of 4 of us(1 K3 owner) thought we had a winner. With 1 yagi on Ant 2, and loop on Ant 1- a great FD rig!
Randy K5SL
 -------------- Original message from Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net>: --------------


> 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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