I disabled diversity reception in my 1000D for several reasons. First and
foremost, it eliminated the ability to use a separate beverage (i.e., RX
ANT.) Second, there was no way to lock the VFOs together for tracking.
Third, there was no way to synchonize bandwidth. Obviously, Ten Tec is
selling a much better brand of dogfood here.
73, Dick WC1M
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry N1EU [mailto:n1eu@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 10:06 AM
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion diversity reception
>
>
>
> --- Bill Tippett <btippett@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > Very cool Barry! How do you feel Orion's diversity
> compares to the FT-1000D's if you ever made that mod?
>
>
> Bill, I never did make the mod to my FT-1000D and the
> incentive to do it is starting to wane in the wake of
> the Orion ;-)
>
> I think feeding the vertical to the subreceiver is
> worth trying.
>
> Besides the technical advantages to diversity, I find
> the stereo effect makes listening a lot more fun - my
> audiophile background perhaps . . .
>
> 73,
> Barry N1EU
>
>
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