[TenTec] RX366 Update

[Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP]

Barry,

First, AGREE, we don't want to overload JH here.
He's already overloaded.

Now if the RX366 is available as a stand-alone receiver, everything else we
need to do to slave it to an Eagle can be done with software, except for
managing the antenna switching and mute.  The Eagle is RADIO-1, the RX366 is
RADIO-2, the software keeps them on the same frequency.  Using different
antennas on each, it would be kind of a subset of true diversity receive,
but it would work.

BTW, I understand you are now our resident expert on this mute bit - hi!

73
Rick

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Barry N1EU
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 10:47 AM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] RX366 Update

I worry about inundating John Henry with so many questions.  He must
be VERY busy with a lot of projects.  I appreciate the fact that he
shares so much information already with the reflector.

I'll take a stab (speaking only for myself, not John)

Yes, the RX366 is essentially the Eagle receiver.  A simple facility
will be provided to easily align the oscillators of the RX366 with the
Orion main receiver from the front panel, within a fraction of a
hertz.  I don't know if you could strictly call this "phase locked"
but it works quite well for antenna diversity.

The RX366 filters will be simply plug-in and configure in the Orion
Filters menu.

Personally, I doubt it can be used/salved with the Eagle.  The Orion
is the platform if you want dual receivers.

73, Barry N1EU

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:50 AM, Ken Brown <ken.d.brown at hawaiiantel.net>
wrote:
> Sounds like the RX366 is essentially the Eagle receiver. John, can you
> confirm that? And if that is so, is there an easy way to operate it
> "slaved" and phase locked to the Eagle receiver, so that it could be
> used in a multiple receive antenna diversity arrangement?
>
> I have experienced this with an Elecraft K3, which is one of the few
> dual receiver transceivers in which the two receivers are identical. On
> the low bands, particularly 160 meters, it really works good, improving
> copy during fades. Deep fades often do not occur simultaneously on both
> antennas. And I find the stereo effect of one receiver and antenna in
> each ear desirable. This only works well when both receivers are phase
> locked. The two receivers cannot have different frequency resolution
> step sizes.
>
> I'd love to have this capability from Ten-Tec.
>
> John Henry wrote:
> Since the RX366 is mostly based on Eagle boards,
>> when we set up for stuffing the 599 boards, we can build more of the
>> same board for multiple products without the cost of tearing down the
>> mydata "stuffer" and setting it back up for a different board.
>
> DE N6KB
>
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