Hi all,
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someone stated elsewhere, that the QMX+ was a good rig for contest. Not really I think. I just used it in the CQWPX as well as my Flex 1500. Well the waterfall is a + for the flex ( I dont want tb buy? more hardware to have one for the QMX) and changing the filters directly on the Hercules console is way quicker. I have not updated to the SSB software yet. The 300 hz filter is vy wide on the high side. Strong signals can be heard widely. Nothing after 0 beat.? Also strong signals seem to saturate the rx and that was a problem especially on 40 m? CW clicks are not nice but that is known. 160 m when the band is used above 1.840 is not workable as all stn from below have a similar signal there again. And then I have still to figure out how to set up the AGC. The hang time on strong signals is too long and that makes life difficult. On the positive side I prefer the audio sound of the QMX+ to the flex.
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I dont't want to be too critical and I never had a newer state of the art rig to compare.? Years back I had a TS 830 and liked that.? S next up is the region 1 FD for the QMX+
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Martin
DK3UW
