But Dan's not just comparing S-meter readings. He's talking about being able to hear signals on the FT-847 that he can't hear on the SDR-1000.
I have no ax to grind in this, as I have neither rig. 73 Alan NV8A On 03/01/07 12:00 pm Tim Ellison wrote: > Also, don't trust the S meter on the FT-847. If you have calibrated > using a signal of known strength, the SDR-1000 is much more accurate. <snip> >> I've been happily using my SDR-1000 as an IF rig for transverters for > >> a month now. It seemed to be performing fine. This weekend I put up > >> dipoles on 10 and 20m and decided to see how it worked on HF and I >> was disappointed. I hooked the same antenna to my FT-847 and was >> hearing stations 3-4 S units better. There were stations that I >> couldn't even hear on the SDR-1000. I guess the reason I thought it >> was working well before was because the transverters/preamps are >> doing all the heavy lifting. >> >> I went to the list archives and read about similar problems and tried > >> all the suggestions I could find to fix it. I also re-calibrated the > >> radio using WWV as the reference but it made no difference. I'm >> using PowerSDR 1.8.0 with the preamp on high and the AF set at 90. >> As a last resort I went through the FA-66 setup guide and found one >> problem. I can't get the sample rate to go higher than 9600. I get >> an invalid sample rate error if I try to set it to 19200. I'm not >> sure that this is related to the problem or not but I thought I'd >> mention it. Anyone have any ideas? >> >> Is anyone on the list near Danbury, CT? I'd be interested in >> bringing my radio over and comparing it to see if the problem is >> software or hardware related. _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
