Sharing my love for the hobby of ham radio with the world. Over 40 years, I've had Ten Tec, Yaesu, Icom, Flex, Kenwood, Drake, SteppIR antennas, tons of home brew antennas. I am a CW contester and DX'er. I also can be found ragchewing on 40M CW. I only run morse code ( CW ) and some digital modes like RTTY and a little FT8. I also help run a small remote control ham radio company called BeLoud - www.beloud.us This allow hams who don't have a good station or antennas to remote in to some really cool stations in the US and around the world. I use LOTW for QSL. I am a member of CWops, FOC, ARRL A-1 operator, DXCC Honor Roll. And lots of contest wins, mostly with my buddies.
Hi Steve, nice to bang out some real cw with you today. Ur good fist. Apparently you dont need more rigs? Have two old Tek scopes to get rid of if you need another project ,!
Kenwood always had and have the best received audio (and transmit), hands down. Most of Yaesu products are harsh compared to Kenwood unless it's the top of the line 5000.
FTDX10 seemed to have the better output?? I assume when you tapped the unit, it was the one we were listening to. The FTDX10 is the clear winner. Also curious why the Kenwood was not set to the exact same (displayed) frequency as the FTDX10? That will skew the results, too. I would hope they both tune the same when the "numbers" are the same!!
It’s and air cool dummy load. I’ve seen the balun taken apart. There’s a 600 ohm resistor and a balun. You’re just heating the resistor. Anything that offers 50 ohms across the spectrum is defying physics. It’s literally like putting a dummy load on your radio. Even a ham stick can do better. I bought one and I cry every time I switch between it and my dipole. Goes from S9 to S1.
Nobody talks about the white noise of the other radios. Ten Tec Orion 1 and the Omni7 and the Jupiter were easy to listen to. Not all that hissing white noise blending with everything. The Ten Eagle was even quieter.
Filtering is a bit wide on both radios…. I had a 570D and I should’ve never of sold it. Close the filter and turn the gain down so us could not hear any static the signal with pop out clear and clean. Unbelievable the prices of Kenwood Radios at the moment 😂
Thanks for the video. Very impressive.I must give it ago. I am a new member of cwops, but so far I have not called CQ in the CWT. I can head copy ragchew at 28-30 wpm but typing in a callsign in N1MM logger in a contest, no way. SP is what I am doing at this time. I must give this a go.
Yaesu seams to be a bit clearer but it’s brand new tech respectively. As others have said the dx10 filtering in an rf noisy environment would make a large difference
Inspiring🙂 I'm also grandpa, my grandson Alex is 2, I take exam for licence in Dec this year, in the future hope to build similiar relation with Alex, 73!
Great comparison. One suggestion---at least part of the time, try to linger a bit longer on one radio or another--I know you were switching quickly to show the difference during a single transmission, but it was difficult to follow which was which some of the time, particularly at the beginning, even watching your hand on the switch (an overlay telling which radio was in use at any given time would help, but I know that is more editing work lol). But this was otherwise a fantastic comparison and really shows the capabilities of strong signal handling of both radios in **real world** conditions, which trumps the specs on paper any day of the week! Thanks and 73s!
Great Video++ Pat sounds a little robotic. like W1AW, maybe he is also using a keyboard. I prefer the human element, even with your little slip at the start. ;-)
Wow, what sweet sounding radio on cw. You must like it. I have a last production TenTec Omni 6+ with matching pwr supply/spr, desk mic and antenna tuner all in mint condition maxed out with filters and mods and great covers. Going to sell it all to get this Yaesu. Kj4pom
Nice comparison. I try to inform anyone that bothers to listen not to buy simply based on the Sherwood list. Sherwood himself warns you not to. The list is built using a two signal test, one weak, one strong. In the real world the rig is subjected to many signals during a crowded band condition, not just two. Real world dynamic range is affected by all the signals, especially if the rig is an SDR sampling a large window. I have pitted my IC-7610 against my old FT-2000 during a CW contest and realized similar results as seen here. Lots of wood pecker heard on the 7610 and almost none on the 2000. Yet, the 2000 is way down on the Sherwood list and the 7610 near the top. The list about killed Elecraft when the K4 results were published. The Orion clearly beats the FT-101 to my ears.
Just happened to have a DX10 on my hands these days, exactly the same thing, I call it the the woodpecker effect, the same applies to the Icom radios, from the old 756 till the 7850, it becomes noticeable above a certain signal strength, let say around an S9, it would be interesting to figure out the root cause of it? DSP section? p.s, this effect was not present on the Icom 775 that I had for quite awhile 73, I4LEC
