Since I work 6 meter weak signal, I thought I would report on how the SDR5000 does on 6 meters.
I have used an SDR1000 on 6 meters for about a year, so I can compare the two radios. To work weak signal stuff on 6 meters, you need a receiver preamp and an RF amplifier to get from .5 watts to 100 watts so you can drive another amp to 1K+. This is only one-half the story. You also need external coaxial relays an sequencing! It is quite a mess. Enter the SDR5000. No more rats nest. You do need a receiver preamp to work the really really weak signals. This is easy with the SDR5000 since it has a RX Loop to connect a receiver preamp. The 100+ watt transmitter output completes the package. All of the other functions are the same (great noise blankers and filters) since the software is essentially the same. The only down side I have found is the transmitter power output can very from start-up of the program. I can work around this but I need to be careful when driving an amplifier. I have seen this issue on two different 5000's on two different computers. It goes without saying that you need a very good antenna system. I work into the Midwest daily on SSB and CW from southwest Florida. (1000 miles path) The band is NOT open, i.e. no sporadic E Great radio, and no knobs, it is a Real Radio! 73, Dave, W9DR -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20071115/50e0ac9f/attachment.html _______________________________________________ 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 Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
