[UK-CONTEST] What is the best VHF Radio

[Eddie G0EHV]

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From: "G3RIR" <g3rir at yahoo.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 8:21 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] What is the best VHF Radio


> Earlier today I reported to a station on 144MHz that his signal was very
> wide. I could hear splatter about 12kHz either side of his signal.
>
> I turned off my mast-head pre-amp, switched in an attenuator and turned my
> beam side on so that I only had s7 registered on my s-meter. The splatter
> was still noticeable.
>
> The station concerned said he was definitely not over-driving anything. He
> asked what receiver I was using and on being told it was an FT847 he
> suggested that it was my receiver at fault. This may of course be the
> problem but he wasn't the only loud signal on the band but was by far the
> widest.
>
> What are the group members' views on the FT847 in handling such situations
> and indeed what is the best receiver around for 144 and 432?
>
>
> Neil, G3RIR

Neil,
There is a very useful article on the mods.dk site. Search on "FT847 ALC 
modification".
It describes causes of splatter from the 847 and has a mod to the ALC 
circuit to suppress.
Regards,
Eddie
G0EHV