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on

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flect

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stea

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con

tinua

lly tu

ning

up

and

dow

n 18

00 to

183

5KH

z, I

sim

ply

wat

ched

the

DX

sect

ion

of th

e ba

nd o

n m

y PC

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4, 3

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z) s

cree

n an

d w

hene

ver a

wea

k si

gnal

ap

pear

ed, c

licke

d on

it, a

nd, h

ey p

rest

o, q

uick

ly id

entif

ied

it.Th

e si

gnal

s I w

as li

sten

ing

to

wer

e be

twee

n S2

and

S5

max

imum

and

ofte

n in

slo

w a

nd h

eavy

QSB

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ound

the

latte

r m

ade

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tune

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FT10

00, b

ut I

coul

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sily

se

e th

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nR

ocky

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ands

cope

and

coul

dn't

mis

s th

em. T

he R

ocky

/Sof

trock

com

bina

tion

was

far m

ore

effe

ctiv

e th

an th

e FT

1000

for t

his

purp

ose,

on

the

basi

s th

at I

foun

d at

leas

t fiv

e st

atio

ns (w

eak

USA

and

JAs

mai

nly)

in th

e sa

me

time

it to

ok m

e to

find

one

on

the

FT10

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ky is

ligh

t yea

rs a

head

of a

ny o

ther

band

scop

eI h

ave

ever

see

n bu

ilt in

to/ta

cked

ont

o a

radi

o -V

E3N

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eser

ves

a m

edal

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poly

phas

efil

terin

g an

d th

e so

lid tr

ace

are

mas

ters

troke

s. T

he d

irect

con

vers

ion

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ock

40 -

mod

ified

for 1

60m

with

a fr

ont-e

ndba

ndpa

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ter d

esig

ned

by P

hil V

K6AP

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was

muc

h ea

sier

on

the

ear t

han

the

FT10

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out t

he m

ultip

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ixer

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the

FT10

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nice

r to

liste

n to

than

the

dual

500

Hz

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ce c

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lters

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.

I sho

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emph

asiz

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at th

is is

an

expe

rimen

ters

(ble

edin

g ed

ge)p

rodu

ct, b

ut a

s fa

r as

I am

con

cern

ed, t

he R

ocky

/Sof

trock

SDR

com

bo is

in a

noth

er le

ague

for w

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