Many of you will recognise the familiar tones of the voice of John ON8EI in Belgium. John, who hails from Ireland ('home' call EI4GO), always has a tremendous signal from his excellent station. He records many of his QSOs and publishes them on his YouTube channel.
This morning, I spent a short time on 20 metres SSB, and put out a CQ. I worked a couple of European stations before I heard the familiar voice of ON8EI calling me. I heard John earlier, on a different QRG, and was going to call him but he said he had to leave the shack, so I was delighted when he answered my CQ on 14.165Mhz USB.
Among other things, we discussed the quality of the transmit audio from my new Yaesu FTdx10 transceiver. As you can hear, I think it is quite nice. John's comment was that my audio sounded stronger than my signal, which is always a good situation, especially for busting pile-ups on rare DX!
John runs a Hermes Lite 2 SDR transceiver witht he (free and excellent) Thetis software. As you can see from the video about, it is not only very attractive in appearance, but in audio quality too.
Very nice Anthony. I'm astonished by the quality of the audio in this youtube video. It is outstanding. Much better as any online webSDR I've come around. I probably do not know even half of what is possible these days on HF. I agree with you that your modulation sounds great. 73, Bas
ReplyDeleteHi Bas. Yes, I agree. Quite superb. I am, however, SUPER impressed by the Yaesu FTdx10 DNR. When it is enabled, it gets rid of most or all of the static, and between overs there is silence. I'm loving it! The Hermes Lite 2 system is relatively inexpensive, but comes with the caveat that it is a QRP radio, so an efficient linear amplifier is absolutely necessary. The Thetis software is free! It really is brilliant. EI2KC
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