Darrell, I have not personally participated in these transceiver tests for
about 10 years.
I used to participate when I lived in the Munich area.
But the list is very simple:
EVERYTHING BEING BUILT TODAY AND COSTING LESS THAN $2K.
(No exceptions - except for the Eagle which is on sale for a lot less right
now)
The entry level into this class of clean transmitter is the Eagle, followed
by the single-RX K3.
That doesn't make every low cost radio a bad radio. It just means they are
not suitable for multi-TX operations.
The strange part about this is, I have heard of at least one M2 station
running a pair of TS-590s and placing high in a contest or two. Here in
Germany that radio was tested by members of the Bavarian Contest Club as
well as members of the Rhein Ruhe DX Association - both groups rejected it.
If you operate at home alone and have no other hams in your immediate
vicinity, I'm sure the TS-590 is a fine radio.
73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Darrell
Bellerive
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 12:50 AM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] On Noisy Transmitters
Would you publish this list?
On Sunday, July 6, 2014 4:07:52 PM Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
> Every now and then we run these tests at one of our multi-multi
> contest stations on all the transceivers we can find. There we have
> lots of antennas but generally pretty far apart. If one of the radios
> causes noise to all others, it gets banned from the site. Most of the
> low cost Japanese radios have been banned because they disturb the
> other 5 bands when they transmit.
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