One should always remember the last laugh is the best laugh. An XLR jack in a mockup is no guarantee that there will be an XLR jack on the rigs that ship. Nor is an XLR plug on a mike a guarantee of
Interesting but from the way things usually work in this world, I rather suspect the new offerings by Icom and Vertex will be incrementally better than anything they have had in the past. Incremental
Barry, I tend to agree with you where it concerns "normal" folks who would destroy the machinery that threatens their livelihood, BUT - from observation, hobbyists are by no means "normal." And 15 gr
QSK gone away? Not on my Orion. I can hear another station between dits at what the MFJ 493 keyer says is 60 - and with what the internal keyer says is 60. So I certainly have QSK - at speeds higher
Hi Tommy: Well, K5TO is 66, I'm 69 myself, and way too much playing with high powered short barreled rifles has left me about like Red Skelton's Cauliflower McPug. So it's easier for me to run a litt
Personally, I "open" the file and let Windows put the opened version in the TTOrion directory. I have every update since day one in that directory, and if I ever do wind up with something I can't liv
Hi Lee; I suspect it will depends bit on just how fast you operate. If the 91's keying is as fast as the 87A you won't have much if any degredation in the QSK. Of course, I could tell the difference
HI Jerry: Well, my Orion and the amps are built in and it's a real pain to get them out single handed - but it is set up with two versions of Titan, so I can only speak about the keying loop - and no
Hi Bob, I guess I will have to re-read what I wrote. Sometimes with two grandkids, two dogs, and Kritter the hamshack cat buzzing around what I write does not come out all that clearly. Especially be
Well, I have my Orion EXT T/R delay set to 0. Nothing seems to want to hot switch so I will leave it there until there is some reason to change. 73 Pete Allen AC5E -- Never squat with your spurs on _
Well, everyone has an opinion, subject to change, but so far my opinion of the IC7800 remains the same as it has been since day one. I have looked at what specs Icom has released on the IC-7800 and t
Well, I have only had three Omni VI's, the Plus and the two Option 3's. In each and every one of them I found the sound MUCH more agreeable with the PBT at 11 o'clock for LSB/CW and at 1 o'clock for
Well, everybody to their own taste as the good man said as kissed the pig, but 1.370 works FB for me. The NR is MUCH improved, the AN likewise, the sweep seems better for chasing the weak ones, and t
Al, I don't use the built in recorder for either CW or voice. I'm mostly CW, and everything I need recorded is in the keyer or the computer. 73 Pete Allen AC5E -- Never squat with your spurs on _____
Lee, it depends on where I am. Most of the time I either use the Vibroplex Brass Racer that's plugged straight into the Orion or hit an F key on the computer keyboard and let the logging program drop
Well, I have both a '275H and an FT-736R that I could put on line. But since the 6n2 made its appearance it's been the primary 6 and 2m rig here. It seems to hear everything the other two do - a bric
Bob, I use a frequency counter very loosely coupled to one of my dummy loads to confirm TX frequency - an an ancient 1.0 mHz crystal calibrator zero beat against WWV to confirm the HP's accuracy. Any
Mike, that's sort of a sore subject around here - and one of the major considerations in deciding to finally build the new house and move to the farm. Where my neighbor the alderman won't have a word
Hi Sergio. Amperage draw depends on the load. According to the meters on the Astron, my Orion draws just under 18 amps at 100 watts into a 50 ohm "dummy antenna." It draws a bit more when the SWR goe
Chuckle: when I started hamming most TX's would shift a couple of hundred cycles during one dah. You could tell which of the stations in your passband you were working by the amount of chirp. 73 Pete