We should not start pointing fingers at Ten-Tec. They never said the Omni
VI was 60M ready or upgradeable. As none of their older radios will be
either. Only their new rigs support instead band adds.
And now for the obvious, the reason you bought an Omni VI in the first
place is its crystal filtering and tuning. No artificial noise floor caused
by synthesizer noise to cover up the weak signals. That has a price and
that price is it is next to impossible to add additional bands unless they
were planned for and actually already built into the radio.
The guys that bought radios before the WARC bands were available were in
the same boat when they were added.
73 Keith
de KE4TEG
At 07:58 PM 07/16/2002 -0400, you wrote:
Todd, I don't blame TenTec for not offering a mod for the 60 Meter band. It
wouldn't be a difficult conversion, it would be an almost impossible one.
In order to do a halfway decent job and preserve the appearance and
functionality of the rig you would either have to redesign the bandpass
filter board to add another filter and its associated reed relays, AND add
another pushbutton to the front panel pushbutton setup to add another band:
or remove one band entirely and change it's pushbutton to one marked 60.
While the second option would not be difficult, which band do you want to
lose?
73 Pete Allen AC5E
73 Pete Allen AC5E
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