[TenTec] RX366

[Rsoifer at aol.com]

Hi Rick,
 
Actually, I've done a fair amount of HF operating from G3LDI's place in  
Norfolk.  Roger then had a TH6DXX (since replaced with a SteppIR) at  110 
feet.  Most of that was on 20, though, which as you say is very  different from 
40.  He's since gotten interested in 160, but his  biggest problem there is 
local noise rather than strong stations, even though  he's on 7 acres out in 
the country.
 
It's fairly rural here in the desert too, with the nearest semi-active ham  
about 5 miles away.  There's also a guy about 2 miles away who likes to  
ragchew with his buddies on 160 SSB running a KW, when I am trying to work  DX 
about 40 kHz down.  The O II handles both of them, unless the hardware  NB 
is on.
 
73 Ray W2RS
 
 
In a message dated 5/22/2013 3:59:01 P.M. GMT Standard Time, Rick at DJ0IP.de  
writes:

When I  win the lottery Ray, I'll buy you one too.

I have no idea if this would  even happen in the states.
You don't have the problem with shortwave  broadcast stations that we have
here in Europe.
Sure, you can hear the  carriers from some of them, but they're pegging the
S-Meter over  here.

Also it has gotten a lot better since I ran that test 6 years  ago.
Most of the shortwave broadcast stations have now moved out of the 40m  
band,
and we have gained another 100 kHz of band.
Our band used to end  at 7.100, now it goes up to 7.200.

In addition, it was very dependent  on which way the beam was pointed.
If the beam was pointing between  northeast and southeast, all of the radios
were crunched except the Orion's  first RX and even the Orion began to hear
the phantoms on its first RX, but  they were weak.
If we rotated it towards the west the Orion's first RX was  completely 
clean.
The others were still crunched.

I guess you just  have to operate from this side of the pond to believe it.

73
Rick,  DJ0IP

-----Original Message-----
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Rsoifer at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 7:39 PM
To:  tentec at contesting.com; ac5aa at ac5aa.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec]  RX366

Judging from some of the comments, I must be fortunate to live in  an area
with no strong local signals.  The only times when either  receiver in my
Orion II folds are when the hardware noise blanker is  on.  When I  turn it
off, the receiver comes back.  I   wish I had that 3 element  40m beam up 
105
feet, though ;-)

73  Ray W2RS


In a message dated 5/21/2013 12:46:01 A.M. GMT Standard  Time,
k8mn at frontiernet.net writes:

That's  the way I use the  sub-receiver as well.  I have a local friend who
bought the OII with  the 366 installed and, after having listened to it a
number of times, I  can't see a reason to purchase it.

73,

Dave  Heil  K8MN

On 5/20/2013 23 32, Duane Calvin wrote:
> Sounds like   you got it right, Ray.  I have a slightly different view.  
>  I  find the stock subRX to be fine for DXing because I use the MainRX  
> to
listen
> to the DX.   After all, he's the one  getting  clobbered by the cops,
> tuner-uppers, QRMers, etc.   The SubRX is  great for finding who's 
> calling
him
> and  where the pileup is.  Any  more, it seems the worst place to call  
> is
on
> top of the last worked  station because you and  20 others are in that 
> same spot.  The  SubRX is great for  lining up the Transmit VFO in the 
> pileup, I   find.
>
> For what it's worth - we all do it our own   way!
>
>     73, Duane
>
>
>  Duane  Calvin, AC5AA
> Austin, Texas
>   www.ac5aa.com

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