[TenTec] Omni VI+ the best and other great radios

[waltk8cv4612amos at att.net]

Not being smart enough to know the difference  ............... but, the old Omni-6 with the same antennas and time frame is a world quieter in BAND NOISE than the nice new Omni 7, no matter how I twiddle the options or RF gain control, there you have it! Phase noise, maybe, it just seems way to sensitive and by the time I get rid of the band noise the signals went with it! The K-3 and Orion 2 are every bit as good as the old omni-6 ........... go figure! Fun trying them all though :-) MAYBE it is the different architecture ?

Walt K8CV Royal Oak, MI.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Brown K9YC" <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni VI+ the best and other great radios


> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:55:21 -0600, CSM\(r\) Gary Huber - AB9M 
> wrote:
> 
>>I've always told myself that my TenTec radios had a lower RX noise 
>>floor than the radio on the other end.
> 
> Perhaps, but at most places any of us get to operate, on bands below 
> 10M, 99.9% of the time RX noise in a top line radio (Ten Tec, 
> Elecraft) is dominated by what comes in on the antenna, NOT by the 
> electronics. We can easily verify this by noting that the noise 
> increases when we plug in the antenna. 
> 
> Almost all ham rigs have decent SENSITIVITY -- that is, they can 
> hear weak signals. The great virtue of the better ones (Ten Tec, 
> Elecraft) is 1) their greatly increased ability to provide 
> SELECTIVITY in the presence of strong signals, and 2) their much 
> lower phase noise. 
> 
> 73,
> 
> Jim K9YC
> 
> 
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