[TenTec] Comparison of Ten Tec Orion II with Flex 500A

[Barry N1EU]

As far as cw performance, the Flex 5000 has had transmit spur
problems, at least on 160M cw.  It has been a heavily debated topic.
But I've definitely heard them myself.  S9+ station 200 miles away had
S3 spur 2.4Khz below fundamental.

73, Barry N1EU

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Duane Calvin <ac5aa1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would say the SSB performance is probably equivalent.  My Orion I sounds
> great on both TX and RCVE.
>
>        73, Duane
>
> Duane Calvin, AC5AA
> Austin, Texas
> www.ac5aa.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Frank Kirschner
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 3:31 PM
> To: N4PY2; Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Comparison of Ten Tec Orion II with Flex 500A
>
> That's probably enough to make the difference; I operate a lot of CW.
>
> If the SSB performance is much better with the Flex, that might move me back
> to undecided.
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> Frank
> KF6E
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:02 PM, N4PY2 <n4py2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> They are both great radios.  The biggest difference is on CW.  The Flex
>> radios have no CW QSK and the internal keyer in the Flex radios has
> latency
>> which makes using the internal keyer difficult.
>>
>> Carl Moreschi N4PY
>> 121 Little Bell Drive
>> Hays, NC 28635
>> www.n4py.com
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Frank Kirschner" <kirschne at erols.com>
>> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 2:50 PM
>> Subject: [TenTec] Comparison of Ten Tec Orion II with Flex 500A
>>
>>
>> > All,
>> >
>> > I realize that the two are very different realizations of transceivers,
>> > but
>> > from an operating standpoint, does anyone have any experience or
>> > observations?    The cost is about the same for the two (or close enough
>> > that I'm considering them both).  Which "works" better?  Ability to hear
>> > signals, ability to transmit a signal that will be heard?
>> >
>> > I've read reviews of both, but without hands-on experience, there's no
>> way
>> > for me to compare, and I don't want to buy both.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > 73,
>> > Frank
>> > KF6E
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