In terms of the original Orion, several of us (and W4ZV in particular) have been quite outspoken to Ten-Tec in this regard but we still haven't seen any changes. When using the factory defaults out
Last week, the station manager contacted me for advice to fix the clicks and I sent him instructions for the Omni 6. 73, Barry N1EU _______________________________________________ Topband mailing lis
I posted about half an hour recording of Saturday night 0215-0242Z of 160M contest activity on my Web site. If interested (and you have broadband), you can hear what I heard in Albany NY. It's a ster
Well said Bob. A tree/tower support might or might not work well for you. In what was intended as a temporary installation (going on 5+ years), my 160M and 80M vertical wires, elevated radials and Be
None of the stations you listed are northeast of Delaware/Ohio, despite their callsigns. I doubt AK was very workable up this way. 73, Barry N1EU Albany NY ___________________________________________
This is a glaring deficiency in the AGC design. I tried two late production MP's and both rigs were plagued with receiver recovery time in cw mode (fast agc) on the order of hundreds of msec in weak
For those interested, I posted what I found a few years back on http://n1eu.com/yaesu/mpagc.htm 73, Barry N1EU _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.
I just presented my findings as anecdotal. Both my '98 and '99 production MP's eventually developed the exact same problem and I've heard from others that had a similar experience (rx taking several
FWIW, here's my setup when running on topband and it works well for me - I've got the Orion configured with a hb switchbox for NE/SW, SE/NW switchable Beverages, audio and footswitch. After cq, I ini
That has been my experience as well. I listened for about 10 minutes this morning while I had partial copy and then there was about a +2 S unit peak with solid copy 10 minutes before sunrise here. 73
Pete, I uploaded a spreadsheet of all AM stations above 1400Khz to http://n1eu.com/am_stations.xls It's a 465KB download. Drop me an email if you need it in a different format. 73, Barry N1EU _______
I think Craig's point is that overposting to a digest email causes you to repost the entire digest. In this case bottom posting would hopefully force the poster to edit out the extraneous digest text
Would a length of RG-8X sufficient for looping through the ferrite cores easily handle full legal power on 1.8Mhz? Barry N1EU _______________________________________________ 160 meters is a serious b
Agreed, but just wanted to mention that I routinely use my 160M Beverage for diversity on 20M (K3 preamp on). RF Gain is set a bit higher on subrx/Beverage, but no big deal. 73, Barry N1EU __________
No reason for Ladder line to break if you secure the ladder line to the supports using a break-away mounting. I use light duty plastic tie-wraps around the ladder line, leaving the ladder line free t
You might want to try turning off the K3's AGC under those condx, just as an experiment. In similar circumstances, I've found turning off AGC alleviates this "noise modulation" effect. 73, Barry N1EU
I've been using a slingshot successfully for many years for launching up to 80ft or so. Above that, I use a bow/arrow. With the slingshot, I don't use a reel - I let the line feed directly off the sp
I'd appreciate info on European Web sites hosting tunable online receivers to remotely monitor your signal on 160-40M. Tnx/73, Barry N1EU _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ...
What these results also indicate is that serious Topbanders are early adopters of new receiver technology that promise an advantage in weak/strong signal conditions. This was the case with the Orion
It's the first transceiver with an uncompromising subreceiver that can be used in tandem with the main receiver for stereo diversity reception. 73, Barry N1EU ________________________________________