After seeing the QST ads for the OMNI VI+ for so many years, where they showed the noise floor rise to cover up small signals inside your passband by larger signals outside of the passband - and knowing that the OMNI VI+ is a ham bands only rig, it seemed to indicate that any of the radios that offered General Coverage in the main receiver suffered that fault.
The numbers seemed to prove that K2, OMNI VI+, Drake R4C, Corsair II, all ham band only have the best numbers as compared to the very best broadband designs - most often from Japan. The Orion only seemed to prove that one more time, the main transceiver is ham bands only with the weaker broadband second receiver for general coverage. That's a long way to go to provide ham plus general coverage unless those ham band only strips are fundamentally important. According to the early K3 info, the transmitter is broadband, the only limitation is where they place the bandpass filters and in theory they could arrange that any way they want. It would be interesting to know what the real design issues are and (no offense to Elecraft), how they were the first to find the best of both worlds. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
