“My wire is longer than your wire!” 🙂
155′ with 9:1 unun. The LDG tuner & old FT-100 would tune it 160-6 meters. I found the internal tuner on the 7300 only handles 3:1 swr and will not tune my wire on 80 or 160 now. Hate to use an external tuner on the 7300, so I might have to modify the antenna so it will tune the lower bands. Maybe a big loading coil on the longwire.
Warren, the solid state digital stuff has gotten so fast now that they are doing direct conversion of RF, bit-slicing the RF directly and processing it in digital form. This eliminates the local oscillator, mixer, and IF stages… all the stuff that adds noise and ‘birdies’ to a receiver. My noise level went from S6 on the old rig to S3 on the 7300.