8600 Diversity Reception

KD0RC

All I can say is WOW!! I didn't expect the diversity reception to be as good as it is. I am on the Western Kansas 160 Meter Net as I write this. My main low-band antenna is a 205 ft. end-fed wire and my RX-only antenna is a loop on ground (LOG).

Tonight, I can hear all stations without the usual deep QSB (it's there, but totally mitigated using diversity). Some stations come in almost exclusively on the end-fed and some mostly on the LOG. Most stations are centered or slightly to one side or the other. It is wild to hear stations slowly moving back and forth between ears (antennas). It makes copy extremely easy compared to operating without diversity.

Now I need to make the TeensyMaestro diversity-friendly. I need to add the ability to easily change the volume and AGC-T controls for slices A and D. At some point, I will look at a way to specify any pair of slices to display. For starters, it will just be A and D when DIV is active. At the moment, it only controls slices A and B - not something that I viewed as a limit until now!