paying 30,000 for a fast car that gets 30 miles to the gallon and has only a flat black paint job roll up windows and of course no air ? I don't think so. Yes I can. In fact BMW offered (and may stil
I believe it is fairly simple. Make outrageous unsubstantiated claims and hope you reel a few suckers in...after all, there's one born every minute. Fortunately ARRL, RSGB and Sherwood Engineering al
...and the Yaesu FT-1000D, FT-1000MP, FT-1000MP Mark V and FT-1000MP Field CW clicks are now "finished" by the factory? :-( Ditto! ;-) 73, Bill W4ZV _______________________________________________ Te
Hi Mario, <http://artinian.bit.si/slike/orionX.gif>http://artinian.bit.si/slike/orionX.gif where X stands for 1,2,3,4. A friend already sent me a copy but thanks for posting that! I feel this was the
Todd, if you ever get to the point of actually owning an Orion, you will find Sinisa's article here of great help: http://www.geocities.com/va3ttn/UsingOrionRX.pdf I've owned my Orion since August 21
I find it odd to be writing this when there are so many IT experts on this reflector. XP is Microsoft's greatest OS ever...right? Guess what...since I gave my wife her XP laptop in December 2002, the
vulnerabilities rather than normal user interaction. XP is also 1000's of times more complicated than Orion's SW. You missed my point which had nothing to do with the reason for the updates. My point
produce any results you want! If you have daily IE crashes with WinXP, in all probability you have a problem with some other software that you have on your PC. I am not an IT expert, but I have four
Hi John, Regarding AGC settings, if you have the time and interest, you should definitely read YT1NT's paper here: http://www.geocities.com/va3ttn/UsingOrionRX.pdf If not, I would simply begin with T
microphone connector shell." You guys owe me a beer since I had a HECK of a time finding this on Heil's website: http://www.heilsound.com/harmonics.htm ...and scroll down to "REMOVING RFI FROM AUDIO
Saw the following very interesting commentary by Rob Sherwood on the Icom reflector: http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/icom/2004-June/011792.html As I've said here previously, I pay very little attent
Would Orion then have "astonishing" IC-7800 performance? 73, Bill W4ZV BDR @ 5 kHz: Orion 130 dB IC-7800 115 dB IMD @ 2 kHz: Orion 92 dB IC-7800 78 dB _______________________________________________
based receiver has a dynamic range of 92db. The Orion either has an incredibly low noise floor or, able to handle extremely high strength signals. Its a little of each, I expect. Orion is more accura
transfer the frequency. A two second press could be used to transfer mode, bandwidth, agc, etc. EXCELLENT suggestion Tom! I hope Gary will consider this. 73, Bill W4ZV _______________________________
the 1khz filter in the Orion, has anyone looked at modifying the IF board to include all filter position in parallel? could cut a couple of traces, re-route the signal and add a nand gate and a coupl
http://www2.arrl.org/members-only/contests/results/2004/DX-CW/ I believe Scott also has the high-claimed SOABHP score for the 2003 CQ WW CW . Nice job using our favorite radio! 73, Bill W4ZV _______
what Bill, W4ZV told us to do. (That's why I said do as Bill says, not as he does. Bill doesn't work much SSB). I still operate too much SSB to eliminate the 1.8 kHz filter. Sometimes here on our tin
Al (W6LX), your comments are right on the mark. There was an interesting discussion recently on eHam on this very topic: http://www.eham.net/articles/8608 Of all the manufacturers, Icom seems to prov
That "someone" was me! However, since I have the 1800 Hz filter, I'll just set my 1000 aside. For casual use, the 1800 Hz will work fine for DSP>750. The format in the reference below is terrible, bu
just put a pad in the signal line with the 500hz filter? In fact I tried putting a 6 dB pad on my 500 Hz filter input. That did compensate the gain correctly, but I really don't know if it completely