On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 15:20:43 -0400
"Chuck Rippel" <WA4HHG@R390A.com> wrote:
> I asked a FT1000/Icom V/S Orion question a few days ago. This thread sheds
> some light on one of the arrows aimed at the Orion, a supposed lack of
> sensitivity. What is being experienced is most likely a very quiet receiver
> which most are never exposed to. No "YaWoodCom" I have ever come across has
> a
> has a receiver section with particularly low noise floor. Even on a quiet
> band, the "S" meter is always bouncing between S-1 and S-3.
>
I can't speak to the Orion (I don't own one) but I do own a TenTec Corsair II.
The other night I was playing around comparing (by ear) my new ultra-high-tech
FT-817 vs the Corsair. I thought the FT-817 seemed a lot noisier than the
Corsair so I disconnected the antenna I had been switching between the two and
instead attached my dummy load (a nice DC-2 GHz "commercial/professional" unit,
not mighty fine junk) to each in turn.
Great googledy-moogledy! The Corsair was extremely quiet - just a
barely-audible hiss. The FT-817, however had an S3-S5 noise level, even with
the preamp off!!
I dropped all plans to replace the venerable and comparatively low-tech Corsair
II with a new(er) all-singing/all-dancing YaComWood box that instant :-)
--
Bill Meahan wmeahan@wa8tzg.org Ham: WA8TZG GMRS: WPXM723
"Progress is made by two kinds of people:
Those who know what can be done and those who
don't know what can't" -- Henry Ford
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