[Yaesu] Best $600 contest rig

[John Geiger]

If you need a good NB for ignition and power line
noise, get a Yaesu FT100D.  Have one hear and it takes
out the power line noise here better than anything
else I have seen (close second was a TS2000).  Plus
the NB level is adjustable, so you can add only as
much blanking as needed.  I think the TS2000 did do
better at not overloading during contest conditions
with the NB on.

73s John W5TD

--- Steve Harrison <k0xp at dandy.net> wrote:

> At 05:59 PM 9/20/2006 -0700, Glen Zook wrote:
> >If you want CW and AM on 160 meters the Heath
> DX-100
> >and DX-100B transmitters and the RX-1 Mohawk both
> did
> >cover 160.  But, both date from the 1950s.
> 
> Boy, talk about old-time....  ;o)))))))
> 
> >The SB-301 does have a noise blanker that works
> fairly
> >well on ignition type pulses
> 
> Yes, I rember that. But mine would often get
> triggered off by my severe
> line noise.
> 
> >and a little on power line noise.
> 
> Yes, mine worked to some extent on some types of
> line noise but was
> frustratingly-ineffective on the majority of my
> noise. That was the main
> reason I eventually bought my FT-301S 
> 8-))))))))))))))))))  But yanno, I
> can't rember just how well my 301's blanker really
> worked. My FT-221R's
> blanker worked great, though. I sometimes used my
> 301S mobile with a
> homebrew 100W amplifier and it worked great on
> ignition noise. Today, I bet
> a 301 would barely fit on the passenger seat of a
> so-called "modern" car
> ;o\  ;o\  ;o\
> 
> >But, during any contest use of a noise
> >blanker is definitely going to cause a lot more
> >problems than it is going to cure.
> 
> >Back in the 1970s I placed very well in all sorts
> of
> >contests including CW and SSB using the Heath
> "twins".
> > I still have a set as well as using a Collins
> 75S-3A
> >and 32S-3 these days as my primary station.
> 
> IIRC, you, I and Pete Grillo (can't rember his
> original W2 call nor his
> later K6 call) used to butt heads all the time when
> you lived in
> California, especially in the California QSO Party,
> CD Parties and W/VE
> Contest. I was WB6PKA and later, N6KA. I'm still a
> bit peeved at losing to
> Pete in the '76 California QSO Party  ;o\  ;o\  ;o\
> 
> >I definitely agree that the Collins KWM-2 series is
> >VERY bad for CW (but works fine on SSB) since it
> uses
> >side-tone generation.  This usually produces at
> least
> >3 signals when used on CW.
> 
> They just didn't do it right; sidetone generation
> has been used since then
> in many other radios with no problem. But one of the
> secrets is the
> transmitter's audio and modulator chain has to be
> very linear. And you're
> effectively using the same method today with either
> HSCW/HSMS or the other
> V/UHF weak signal "data" modes.
> 
> Steve, K0XP
> ex-WB6PKA, ex-N6KA
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