I use an ATAS-100 but just recently picked up a few high power RM- S series have both a fold-over long mast and a short Stainless mast. About to test and tune them so I can run my Ameritron ALS-500m Amplifier.

What type of radio is this!? I only know about ham radios and normal fm/am radios. What type of radio is this?

As soon as I pass my test and get good radio I’m getting that tunable HF antenna! Very impressive

Not much in it, but then noise blankers are just a handful of components at the front end. They all pretty much do the same job ...they gate ignition or spike type noise away. Mine completely eliminates S9 electric fence clicks at this QTH which is great. BUT... and this is important. Don't leave the NB switched on all of the time, it decimates your dynamic range and allows close in signals to break through easily. In fact, if you ever hear splatter breaking through, check that your NB is switched off.

hustler is better

Should I get one lol

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

Like others have said, compare the stinger length. Do you remember if you cut down the original? Also try swapping stingers.

Wow. What a crystal clean receive.... and recording.... Only this damn powerline/LED noise ruins the ability to pick out low level sigs. Damn technical "progress"....

what is that radio?

Is that the internal speaker

Picked up 5 hustlers from a ham fest the old type ones made my own mast sections down to a large spring On my truck worked in the uk italy from vk in my driveway what a great antenna.

Fantastic!👍

So just portable then. Beach pedestrian...Good God 🙄 P.S. Beautiful radio.

I have the Yaesu FTdx101MP, TenTec Orion I (Model 565) and the Ten Tec Orion II (Model 566) with Optional RX366 receiver. I concur that the TenTec audio is quieter and actually can be configured to sound like listening to FM. The trade off is that there is a slight learning curve to enable the user to set the Orion up but when you do (combination of RF Gain, High/Low shift and Passband tuning along with the Bandwidth control). The bad thing is the Orion's (Ten Tec) are not made any longer and IF you have a problem it's possible that you will have a "brick" of a radio but as long as they work they (In my opinion) beat, hands down, the Yaesu FTdx101 series radios AND actually the Kenwood TS990s which I also have. We (amateur community) lost a lot when Ten Tec shut down production account of retirements. I hope the one who has it now will one day resurrect the brand and build an Orion III. I think he has the desire but I fear he may not have the workers to enable him to accomplish the feat of returning Ten Tec to Amateur Radio viability.

Nice! I have the wide filter too kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJick42Kj82ej9U 73

beautiful sound, not like yaesu underwater tunnel...

Great video. Own the RGO One and the FTDX-101MP. They’re both fantastic radios from my pov 73

I've had much better results with the Hustler mast & resonators than with hamsticks. Thanks for the video.

I got on this list for one

Is that a radio like fm and am or like RADIO 4

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.

Excellent++ video. Ham radio is zen for me, digital warp and flashing lights is for contesters IMO...

FT710 is best

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.

Rgo has a great rxer. Makes me dislike sdr technology more than I already do.

Wow, the RGO Wins in this video

It sounded a lot worse with the notch turned on IMO but that's the thing isn't it... we all hear things differently.

Glad you did this video. I actually decided to sell my FTDX101D and get the RGO. Not because of this video butg this is more confirmation that the new-fangled radios are somewhat overrated for the money invested in them. There is something very artificial about today's digital radio audio and noise filtering capabilities that I have been unable to embrace fully in daily use. My original 1970 FT-101 has none of these issues. We need more "big three" alternatives like the RGO One. 73 de Scott W1AL

C'est ça le vrai amateurisme pas les gens qui utilisent amplificateur De 4 kilowatts c'est plus de la radio

Wow this thing has really nice receive!

I’ve done the same comparison with the ZS6 and a vibroplex EFHW. At similar heights of 40’. The efhw had 100’ of LMR 400 and the ZS6 had 50’ of RG8X. The ZS6 had the expensive DX Engineering Balun choke at the ladder line feed point. The EFHW had no choke. The antennas were so identical it was freaky. Receive and transmit reports all identical. Both antennas were oriented in the same direction also.

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Was that audio on the internal speaker?

Woahhh

Hello Great Vid, How much is that Unit?

Very nice. Can a Heil.mic be used with this?

Did you adjust the timing and depth for the 101 NB in its menu, to maximize the effectiveness? Can you check for degraded selectivity between the two radios with NB enabled? The NB usually degrades selectivity. A signal 5-6kHz away can bleed through with the NB enabled. It would be interesting to see if that is the case with the RGO. I’m very critical of DSP-based noise blankers. But all noise blankers only represent a temporary fix. Only outboard phase cancellation devices are effective without degrading selectivity.

Great++ video!

walt has RF in his audio.

It's time for YAESU to hire engineers from RGO.

The Legendary KB2JXM with "The Sound"

The 10m band been good to day

Aha. 40m from home. I catched you 😂😂😂😂

considering the age of the Orion, very good reception and better than the new FTDX101. I have seen several other older Receivers better than the new once.

That's hamradio..... moment's you will remember in 50years.

When you had everything on I couldn't understand anything the dx station was saying. But when you turned off the notch he got clearer. I think you need to experiment more with that radio to get those settings at their best.