I recently sold my 101D due to its horrible ergonomics mainly. It is also has a high noise floor, has harsh audio, and to me the screen looks like an 80s arcade game. I just got an RGO One and it is soooo much quieter. The 101D filter has audible whines and squeals. It is tiresome to listen to long-term. The big three have totally lost the thread, IMHO.
First, in a rapidly changing band condition ( and you had it in spades on this video) you cannot flip back and forth between radios and think that shows the advantage on one over the other. You must take the incoming signal off the antenna, split it, feed it to separate radios and send the output of Rx-A into one ear and the output of Rx-B into the other ear so you are hearing both in real time. Second (just observation, not an attack ) your 101 was maladjusted. I note in your video you had tons of gain above the noise threshold, preamplifiers on, and random stabs at various gnobbies. I find when others operate my DX10 (field day, etc.) and I sit back down later, often times the RF gain (threshold) is up to '11' , DNR is activated to some random number, shifts are on, double preamplifiers on, receive EQ curve looks like it was run over by a Mack Truck, and so jacked out of shape it sounds like dog poop. A conventiona single-stagel superhet receiver can sound good in poor conditions if the RF / IF is not over driven and the operator keeps his gerplucken fingers off the NB, AGC, etc. gnobbies. Over the past 5 years I have done many comparisons (test set-up as described above) with my older "flagship radios" (in their day, they were) to the SDR revolution radios (Yaesu and Flex plus other dongles - and the SDR under test wins the overall score on receive almost all the time.
There's a reason I have two radios on the desk. NO single radio is the "best" at everything as we all know. I was just trying to show the differences between both radios using normal settings that most use. On 10m, a preamp is almost always necessary. Especially when someone is as weak and there is rapidily changing QSB. I had a flex 6400 and it was terrible with weak signals, it you look at shewood's list, it has the worst Noise floor on the list.
What a BS video! It's obviously a mess. If QRN is so high, why do you have slow AGC?! (to block reception for long periods at each lightning). At QRM so high, why activate AMP1?. What's the point of maneuvers with NB?!. AGC had to be set to Auto, AMP1 off, DNR on and set to 5 - 10, VC tune on.
@@remusboldis6177 to show the NB effectiveness. I don’t like the DNR it has a watery sound, and it removes the high frequencies. When you’re trying to pull a signal out of the noise, dnr is useless anyway.
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Excellent++ video. Ham radio is zen for me, digital warp and flashing lights is for contesters IMO...
Great video. Own the RGO One and the FTDX-101MP. They’re both fantastic radios from my pov 73
RGO ONE is like old TEN TEC quiet receiver. I am not sure why we even need SDR radio, if it is not good as older design. AG6JU
100%
Wow, the RGO Wins in this video
I recently sold my 101D due to its horrible ergonomics mainly. It is also has a high noise floor, has harsh audio, and to me the screen looks like an 80s arcade game. I just got an RGO One and it is soooo much quieter. The 101D filter has audible whines and squeals. It is tiresome to listen to long-term. The big three have totally lost the thread, IMHO.
I agree. The smooth quiet audio is one of the main reasons I bought the rgo
First, in a rapidly changing band condition ( and you had it in spades on this video) you cannot flip back and forth between radios and think that shows the advantage on one over the other.
You must take the incoming signal off the antenna, split it, feed it to separate radios and send the output of Rx-A into one ear and the output of Rx-B into the other ear so you are hearing both in real time.
Second (just observation, not an attack ) your 101 was maladjusted. I note in your video you had tons of gain above the noise threshold, preamplifiers on, and random stabs at various gnobbies.
I find when others operate my DX10 (field day, etc.) and I sit back down later, often times the RF gain (threshold) is up to '11' , DNR is activated to some random number, shifts are on, double preamplifiers on, receive EQ curve looks like it was run over by a Mack Truck, and so jacked out of shape it sounds like dog poop.
A conventiona single-stagel superhet receiver can sound good in poor conditions if the RF / IF is not over driven and the operator keeps his gerplucken fingers off the NB, AGC, etc. gnobbies. Over the past 5 years I have done many comparisons (test set-up as described above) with my older "flagship radios" (in their day, they were) to the SDR revolution radios (Yaesu and Flex plus other dongles - and the SDR under test wins the overall score on receive almost all the time.
There's a reason I have two radios on the desk. NO single radio is the "best" at everything as we all know. I was just trying to show the differences between both radios using normal settings that most use. On 10m, a preamp is almost always necessary. Especially when someone is as weak and there is rapidily changing QSB. I had a flex 6400 and it was terrible with weak signals, it you look at shewood's list, it has the worst Noise floor on the list.
Rgo has a great rxer. Makes me dislike sdr technology more than I already do.
FT710 is best
What a BS video! It's obviously a mess. If QRN is so high, why do you have slow AGC?! (to block reception for long periods at each lightning). At QRM so high, why activate AMP1?. What's the point of maneuvers with NB?!. AGC had to be set to Auto, AMP1 off, DNR on and set to 5 - 10, VC tune on.
@@remusboldis6177 preamp is on both radios. Weak signal needs a preamp on 10m. Glad you enjoyed the video. Looking forward to your video
@@aj2isotadxing Why AGC on slow, why?!!! FTDX 101 is very sensitive, usually no AMP is needed. Why is DNR not on? What is the point of NB action?
@@remusboldis6177 to show the NB effectiveness. I don’t like the DNR it has a watery sound, and it removes the high frequencies. When you’re trying to pull a signal out of the noise, dnr is useless anyway.
@@aj2isotadxing NB has no effect in QRM and QRN, it only has an effect on rhythmic clicks. DNR works very well and can be adjusted from 1 to 15.
I'd say you have a lose antenna connector or something of the kind.
@@63snampook nope.