[Flexradio] Six Meters

2006-05-26 Thread Scott Gordon
Question I was just tuning around on 6 meters since I see there is a opening. I have a coax switch where I can switch between my SDR and Yaesu 857D. I am hearing signals much better on my Yaesu then on the SDR? I mean maybe S6 on the yaesu and just barely hearing in the noise on the SDR. Do I

Re: [Flexradio] Six Meters

2006-05-26 Thread Dale Richardson
Scott, I take back my last comments. I just tried your experiment and got the same results. Listening to beacons there is a significant difference between my FT-920 and the SDR. The FT-920 registers an S4-S5 while the SDR is around -120dbm and barely audible in the noise. Same antenna (6M7JHV

Re: [Flexradio] Six Meters

2006-05-26 Thread Bob McGwier N4HY
The MDS is six meters is no better than it is on the lower bands (~128 dBm on 20 meters) and is probably a little bit worse.Six meter rigs with any serious intent need to have an MDS about 20 dB better than this. This system is clearly intended to be used with external stuff, both an

Re: [Flexradio] Six Meters

2006-05-26 Thread Ross Stenberg
I seem to remember reading on the reflector that SDR-1000 performance on six meters is down significantly. This could be wrong of course, but the results several of you are reporting seem to confirm it. 73 Ross K9COX ___ FlexRadio mailing list

Re: [Flexradio] Six Meters

2006-05-26 Thread John Basilotto
:33 PM To: Reflector Flex-Radio Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Six Meters Ditto here. TS2K blows the SDR1K away on 6m rx. Ant is 4L Steppir w/6m addon kit at 21m 73 Jeff kb2m - Original Message - From: Dale Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Scott Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FlexRadio@flex