Date: Tue, 10 May 94 04:30:13 PDT From: Ham-Digital Mailing List and Newsgroup Errors-To: Ham-Digital-Errors@UCSD.Edu Reply-To: Ham-Digital@UCSD.Edu Precedence: Bulk Subject: Ham-Digital Digest V94 #143 To: Ham-Digital Ham-Digital Digest Tue, 10 May 94 Volume 94 : Issue 143 Today's Topics: [Q] your opinion for BEST HF PacTOR rig ? (2 msgs) Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send subscription requests to: Problems you can't solve otherwise to brian@ucsd.edu. Archives of past issues of the Ham-Digital Digest are available (by FTP only) from UCSD.Edu in directory "mailarchives/ham-digital". We trust that readers are intelligent enough to realize that all text herein consists of personal comments and does not represent the official policies or positions of any party. Your mileage may vary. So there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 10 May 94 01:54:13 GMT From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!rogjd@ucbvax.berkeley.edu Subject: [Q] your opinion for BEST HF PacTOR rig ? To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu Kenneth C Hopper (khopper@kimbark.uchicago.edu) wrote: : I saved a few $$. Currently using a Ten Tec Omni-V and looking : for an upgrade to a new rig. {I don't hear anything about a new : OMNI-7 ?? did anyone pick up on any rumors at Dayton ?} : Any suggestions welcomed. I use the Kenwood TS850/SAT and have found it to be wonderful for Pactor and Amtor. The dual 500 Hz filter option really lets you lock in the signals for good solid QSOs. The rig was designed with these modes clearly in mind, with neat options such as selectable FSK shift (200 Hz for Gtor and Pactor, or 170 for Amtor/RTTY/Packet and others for other modes not invented yet!), slow decay on the S-meter so you can give signal reports even on Amtor, and lots more. The rig just loafs along in all these modes, cooling and power-supply wise. My vote is for the 850 :-) -- rogjd@netcom.com Glendale, CA AB6WR ------------------------------ Date: 10 May 94 01:43:07 GMT From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!sww@ucbvax.berkeley.edu Subject: [Q] your opinion for BEST HF PacTOR rig ? To: ham-digital@ucsd.edu Uri Blumenthal (uri@watson.ibm.com) wrote: : In article <1994May5.174604.13745@news.csuohio.edu>, sww@csuohio.edu (Steve Wolf) writes: : > A power supply in my Yaesu 980 was no where near what is required for : > Pactor. To replace it, I ordered a Kenwood 450. Never having had a : : Well, I've used Yaesu-990 for PacTOR (and AMTOR and you name it), : and on PacTOR the rig hardly got warm... Full power, 110W. Maybe : it was 980-specific problem? : Put it on a BBS and read 30 or 40 messages from it. Let me know. Pactor isn't too hard on a keyboarder or BBS user. To the BBS itself, it is heck. Plus, my 980 was quite old. The total supply was in a box inside the radio that was about six inches square, transformer and all! You need a rig that can take a very, very high duty cycle. 73, Steve NO8M@NO8M.#NEOH.OH.USA.NA ag807@cleveland.freenet.edu ------------------------------ End of Ham-Digital Digest V94 #143 ******************************