Topband: Diversity-capable transceivers

[Roger Parsons]

I am using the IC7800 as a diversity receiving system on 160m and it is excellent. Both receivers are identical and are locked to the same Master Oscillator. I have been unable to detect any phase drift either with frequency or time. 


I was surprised to read a comment that it has poor receivers as all the reports that I have seen (and my personal experience) have shown it to be superior to just about anything other than the K3S (in some respects) and the IC7850/7851. The Main=Sub command only occurs as the button is pressed, so I have built a litle box which updates via the CI-V bus with any change of frequency (firmware by VE3RX).

I wasted a bit of good contesting time this past weekend listening to European stations having often identical SNRs on two separate and physically separated staggered Beverage systems, but sometimes fading between the two, and always enhancing readability on weak signals.

73 Roger
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