Topband: Omni 6 Plus

[Martin]

Hello topbanders,
i am very surprised to read that obviously nobody uses that "cheap
clean radio" on topband. I use a TS-850 for over 10 Years now and
wouldnŽt want to give it away. I never had complaints about clicks on any
band. IŽam not a big gun, (a little pistol, that is), so you all donŽt
know me.
But listening on topband with this radio is a pleasure.
There are two things that nag me:
 1. the noise-blanker is no good (there is a fix at www.mods.dk).
 2. the receiver hisses when no sig present, but that is
 something you only know if you have ever listened to a K2 with the
 KAF2 installed or radios that have DSP.

 I am looking for a fix for that hiss.

Has somebody ever compared the TS-850-RX to other radios on 160?

Rig: TS-850S, 400hz-Inrad-Filters in both IFs
Ant: Inv-Vee Trap-Dipole (length 66m) for 160/80m, up 17m at feedpiont, sloping down to
8m.

73, Martin
DL1iAQ
K2 #2706
 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji at contesting.com>
To: <Topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 5:51 AM
Subject: Topband: Omni 6 Plus


> I had a chance to observe something interesting last night. A wide
clicking
> signal suddenly became click-free.
>
> The operator e-mailed me and said he exchanged his Omni-6 plus for a
TS-850.
> The change was pretty dramatic. He went from about 3kHz wide with S9
clicks
> down to no clicks at all!
>
> The important point is there apparently are some very clean cheap radios
out
> there. It would be interesting to learn the models of *good* radios and
make
> that info available. If any has that info, please e-mail it to me.
>
> 73, Tom W8JI
>





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Mit freundlichen Grüssen

Martin                 mailto:dl1iaq at gdxf.de