My Omni VI has the "birdies" too, I believe they are originated in the
digital display. They have never proved to be something that I would want
to get rid of my Omni.
Jim, de wd4air
>From: "Steve Hunt" <steve@karinya.net>
>Reply-To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
>To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [TenTec] Omni VI first impressions
>Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 09:48:50 -0000
>
>Folks,
>
>Thanks for all the helpful comments, both via the List and privately.
>
>Concerning the "Disadvantages":
>
>There was a consensus of replies that the variation of display brightness,
>and the "key up thump", seem to be "features" that other Omni VIs exhibit.
>
>AGC characteristics, audio quality, and S meter calibration comments were
>generally under the heading "that's how it is" !
>
>No-one seems to have my non-tunable "heterodyne(s)". I have listened to
>this a bit more carefully. At warm-up several heterodynes, one after the
>other, drift quickly through the pass band - all of them are non-tunable.
>Once the rig is stable, if I'm left with a heterodyne in the pass band it
>can be tuned out with PBT control. I don't mean "filtered out" with PBT;
>just a few degrees rotation of the PBT control around its mid position and
>the heterodyne rapidly moves in audio tone and out of the passband. If the
>PBT control is more than about 5 degrees away from its central position I
>never hear a heterodyne at all. I guess this must be some funny mixing
>product involving the15.3 MHz PBT oscillator.
>
>The heterodynes are clearly audible above background noise, but they don't
>move the S meter and now I know how to shift them I can probably live with
>them.
>
>Thanks again for all the comments.
>
>Steve G3TXQ
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve Hunt
> To: TenTec@contesting.com
> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 12:03 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] Omni VI first impressions
>
> Disadvantages
>
> 1) An annoying heterodyne (non-tunable) in the pass band on all bands,
>significantly above the noise level.
> 2) I don't like the agc characteristics. Perhaps after 22 years I've
>just got so used to the Corsair "hang" agc. I find myself turning the RF
>gain way back on the Omni to stop the noise rising between words - even
>with the agc in the Slow position
> 3) Audio quality on SSB Rx is not as nice as the Corsair. I've tried
>various external speakers on the Omni, but the Corsair always sounds better
> 4) The meter and Frequency display is quite dim (even at the highest
>setting) compared to the Corsair's bright display. And the meter
>illumination varies with the number of LEDs that are on. For example if you
>switch VOX off and on the meter illumination varies!
> 5) An annoying "thump" in the speaker going from key down to key up.
> 6) S meter calibration not as accurate as the Corsair. I set the Omni as
>per the book (S9=50uV, S3=0.3uV) but it's not as accurate as the Corsair
>in-between. [It probably wouldn't normally worry me, but at the moment I'm
>doing a lot of a antenna azimuth measurements]
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