I took my newly purchased Orion1 out to FD..I actually only have an hour or so
on the rig. N5WA came out and set a few agc based on his 5 yrs with his Orion.
The Orion never knew our other 2 stations were across the field. I had similiar
experience's with my new rig. Had all 6 filters. KA5M has an Orion2. 3 out of 4
of us(1 K3 owner) thought we had a winner. With 1 yagi on Ant 2, and loop on
Ant 1- a great FD rig!
Randy K5SL
-------------- Original message from Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op@sbcglobal.net>:
--------------
> I took my O-II to FD and used it at the CW station. There were only
> two of us, but the other guy (who has an IC746) loved the O-II. Once
> i showed him how to set the AGC, he really liked it. For better or
> worse, we heard lots of stations that we couldn't work.
>
> The SSB station was using an IC-7000, and at 200 KHz spacing, the
> phase noise completely wiped out the band. We could even hear that on
> harmonically-related bands. It certainly wasn't overlaod, but real
> pahse noise. I looked up the QST reviews and at these spacings, the
> '7000 is typically 10-20 dB worse in tx phase noise than the O II.
>
> They appeared to not have the same problem from us, so I assume that
> the O II tx is quite a bit cleaner at those spacings the the '7000 tx.
>
> Anyone ever had more that one Orion (or any stripe) at FD? If so, did
> you have interference probelms?
>
> 73,
>
> Kim Elmore N5OP
>
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