[amsat-bb] FT-736R vs. TS-2000X

[John Geiger]

Putting the rig in FM-Narrow helps with the birdie, and you can vary the IF
shift somewhat to help a little.  The NOTCH and Beat Cancel (another notch
filter) don't seem to do much with it.  Only the manual Beat Cancel works
in FM, I think.  A mast mounted preamp can put the downlink signal above
the birdie as well. At the beginning and end of a pass the downlink is away
from the birdie as well.

John AF5CC

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 5:59 PM, John Brier <johnbrier at gmail.com> wrote:

> So are the SO-50 birdie workarounds in the radio or like what Craig
> said below, a jumper to another radio?
>
> I was thinking, wouldn't shifting the IF/BFO or something like that
> move the birdie somewhere else?
>
> 73,
>
> John KG4AKV
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Andrew Glasbrenner
> <glasbrenner at mindspring.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > The TS-2000 by a mile, which is indeed full duplex. The only issue is
> the birdie on SO-50's downlink, and there are workarounds for that.
> >
> > 73, Drew KO4MA
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >>From: Christopher Maness <christopher.maness at gmail.com>
> >>Sent: May 12, 2016 9:54 AM
> >>To: Tony Langdon <vk3jed at gmail.com>
> >>Cc: "amsat-bb at amsat.org" <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
> >>Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] FT-736R vs. TS-2000X
> >>
> >>Let me restate the question in a different way.  Say you had both
> radios, and your wife walks into your shack and says you don’t need two
> satellite radios.  Shaking her finger, she says you need to sell one.
> Which one would go?
> >>
> >>(My wife knows nothing about these radios — the fiction is for effect :D
> )
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Chris KQ6UP
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