That is impressive -- a notable tribute to the clean signal transmitted by a
Delta 580, as well as the Rx-331 receiver. Do you think that a synthesized
radio's transmitter would be as clean?
73 de Mike N4NT@chartertn.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Moreschi" <n4py@earthlink.net>
To: "tentec" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 10:53 AM
Subject: [TenTec] Rx-331 Front End - N4PY
>
> 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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