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FT 1000 MP - Need your opinions
Hi there,
hope you all had a great CQWW contest - we at DF1LX certainly did and worked a couple of the regulars from this newsgroup as well. Doug even comes back when addressed with his name and not his callsign ,-) I wonder what your experience with the FT-1000MP is, which is the rig we used during the contest. This was a first for us, so far we have used a trusty FT-990 for that. To be quite honest: I found the FT-1000MP a dreadful rig for CW in many respects: - The side tone is ugly and hums badly - QSK simply sucks, both in terms of signal quality (clips) and audio quality. - As soon as you got more than three stations calling with signals above 559, the receiver sound completely overloaded and produces a non-distinguishable signal mess. Let me try to explain the last part: On my trusty TS930 ist is easily possible to have a wall of 20 or 30 really loud stations and yet be able to pull out a really weak one that somehow manages to not zero-beat on any of the big signals. On the FT-1000, however, this is flat out impossible; what you hear is a porridge-like mess of audio with no chance of pulling out weak ones. We tried all combinations of filters (this particular FT-1000MP is completely loaded with INRAD-filters), DSP, notching, shifting etc., but the result was the same. Given that four operators had exactly the same feeling I am curious to learn what other operators have to say about it, in particular operators with some pile up or contest experience. How do you manage in pile-ups? Seriously, the thought of spending hour after hour on working a pile up with this rig simply gives me a headache, whereas the thought of doing the same thing with my trusty 930 merely makes me want to have even more pile ups. I had actually planned to go shopping for a new rig, but after that contest I feel that my money is a lot better spent on getting the 500 Hz-INRAD filter for my TS930 and add the PIEXX digital board upgrade which makes the rig computer controllable. Any comments? Peter Lemken DF5JT Berlin ObContestPeeve: CT by K1EA is a great piece of software that does anything a contester needs. I only wish someone had instructed Ken on usability. Next contest will be done with TLF, the free Linux-clone of TRLog. No more network CRC-errors, lost QSOs, and weird keyboard functions. It's been nice to work with CT for more than 10 years, but it's definitely time to move on to something better. -- There's a remote exploit it in the free market, whereby you can boot the price of something by talking crap. It was reported to Bugtraq yesterday, and I'd post a link to bugzilla.nyse.ftc.gov, but they don't allow links from slashdot. -- http://www.petitiononline.com/nosco/petition.html |
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