AB9CA/4 wrote:
I would think that a Flex would be absolutely intolerable for any
event involving nearby stations, such as Field Day.
I can attest to that from personal experience.
A couple of friends and I did a two-transmitter FD operation. His rig
was a Flex-1500, mine was a K3. Both running 5W, on battery power
(separate batteries), on separate antennas.
We had hoped to be able to operate on the same band on different modes.
In fact, when I was operating CW low in the band and he was listening on
SSB higher up the band, he said he could not tell when I was
transmitting. However, the reverse was definitely *not* the case.
Whenever he pressed the PTT button on the mike on his Flex-1500, my
received band noise went up by several S units. I could only hear the
strongest signals through the noise; everything else was covered up. The
noise level was high as long as his rig was in transmit, even when he
was not talking into the mike.
73,
Rich VE3KI
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