I also agree that the all in one boxes come up short,
but for an additional reason. They don't do you a lot
of good if you need (Ok want)to monitor several
VHF/UHF bands simultaneously. Their economic advantage
falls apart if you need to watch several bands at
once.
What Ten Tec must absolutely include in the Orion are
easy connections to get low level TX signals for
transverter use. And also a sepparate RX connection(s)
for transverter duty as well.
Duane
N9DG
--- Robert & Linda McGraw K4TAX <RMcGraw@Blomand.Net>
wrote:
> Paul:
>
> I fully agree. I'm an avid HF'er and work EME, MS,
> & tropo on VHF & UHF.
> I've found that may of the "all band, all mode" rigs
> suffer in RX
> performance, especially on VHF & UHF. I say if one
> wants to work HF then
> get a good HF rig. For me, VHF & UHF demand
> separate radios. In truth, I
> use a Tentec OMNI VI+ on 10M with dedicated Down
> East Microwave transverters
> for VHF and UHF.
>
> 73
> Bob K4TAX
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul DeWitte K9OT" <k9ot@mhtc.net>
> To: <TenTec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 8:51 AM
> Subject: [TenTec] ORION
>
>
> > On the subject of features for the new rig I see
> no reason to have VHF/UHF
> > in a HF rig as you can only listen to one band at
> a time (unles you have
> > dual independent recieve) anyway. A lot of the all
> band hf/vhf/uhf rigs
> > compromise their performance on some bands. I
> would rather have a VERY
> good
> > HF rig and if I wanted to get on vhf/uhf get a
> seperate rig for those
> > bands.I would guess this will be the top of the
> line radio and see them
> put
> > ALL of their efforts in to making it the best HF
> rig out of TEN TEC yet.
> > Personal opinion only. 73 Paul k9ot
> >
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