I decided this morning to do an experment to see how resistant
my RX-331 is to front end overload. I have a dipole on a separate
feedline located about 100 feet from my tower. On my tower, I have
a log periodic 8 element antenna. I tuned the RX-331 to 21.250 and
was listening to a Russian station running about S7 on the log periodic.
I setup my Ten-Tec 580 Delta to the dipole and tuned it to 21.050.
I transmitted a carrier. No effect whatsoever was heard on the RX-331.
In fact I found the RX-331 was not the least bit disturbed by the Delta's
100 watts until I got to within 10 kHz of the RX-331 tuned frequency.
I thought this was very impressive. I have never seen another front
end on a receiver that was this strong. This would certainly solve
what I call the classic "field day problem", when you run many rigs
close together.
Carl Moreschi N4PY
Franklinton, North Carolina
n4py@earthlink.net
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