BER Chart --------- 3 March 2002 This is culled mostly from QST reviews, but also other sources. If this doesn't make sense to you, just look at the RATE column on the right. the higher the number the better, but this is a composite score. Radios without adequate information were not graded. This does not mean they are bad. QST says that columns 5 and 7 here should both have 1.0-5 or less to be efficient at 9600 baud. As you can see, a lot of radios fail. x.y-z = x.y * 10^-z QST @dB SINAD -50dBm @db SINAD TXdelay RATE Radio/mhz date RX 12 16 TX 12 12+30dB ms 9-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TR370/146 11/97 9.4-4 2.2-5 <1.0-5 2.6-3 1.0-5 IC2800H/146 10/99 2.5-3 2.7-4 <1.0-5 2.6-3 2.6-3 150 2 IC2800H/440 10/99 3.1-3 4.2-4 <1.0-5 3.6-3 6.9-4 200 3 FT7100M/146 08/01 2.5-3 5.6-4 1.6-4 3.0-2 1.4-2 170 1 FT7100M/440 08/01 1.9-3 2.5-4 8.2-5 3.4-2 1.7-2 140 1 FT817/146 04/01 1.7-3 7.6-5 <1.0-5 7.7-4 <1.0-5 ssb 16 fm 15 8 FT817/440 04/01 1.3-3 7.2-5 <1.0-5 7.5-4 <1.0-5 ssb 16 fm 15 8 FT100/146 06/99 1.2-3 1.7-5 <1.0-5 3.1-4 <1.0-5 ssb 11 fm 13 8 FT100/440 06/99 1.1-3 1.5-5 <1.0-5 2.5-4 <1.0-5 ssb 11 fm 13 8 TH7DA/146 08/99 FT90R/146 09/99 2.4-2 9.1-3 2.4-3 3.9-3 9.1-5 84 3 FT90R/440 09/99 2.1-2 8.0-3 2.3-3 7.7-3 7.5-4 58 3 FT1500M/144 07/00 2.5-3 4.4-5 1.4-4 9.3-3 3.0-4 16 4 IC706MKIIG/146 07/99 2.2-3 4.6-5 <1.0-5 4.6-3 2.1-4 ssb 20 fm 210 3 IC706MKIIG/440 07/99 2.3-3 8.4-5 <1.0-5 2.8-3 1.9-4 ssb 20 fm 219 3 DR605T/146 12/96 5.2-4 1.0-5 <1.0-5 8.4-3 4.4-3 80 2 DR605T/440 12/96 5.9-4 1.4-5 <1.0-5 3.7-3 3.4-4 83 3 C5900DA/50 12/96 1.0-3 3.3-5 <1.0-5 7.1-4 <1.0-5 78 7 C5900DA/146 12/96 5.7-4 1.5-5 <1.0-5 1.3-3 2.2-5 60 5 C5900DA/440 12/96 3.5-4 2.7-5 <1.0-5 3.9-4 <1.0-5 60 7 FT8000R/146 12/96 1.3-3 7.1-5 <1.0-5 4.1-3 7.2-5 50 4 FT8000R/440 12/96 1.0-3 6.4-5 <1.0-5 7.8-3 4.7-4 50 3 IC821H/146 03/97 2.6-3 1.1-4 <1.0-5 6.3-4 <1.0-5 SSB 29 FM 26 8 IC821H/440 03/97 3.5-3 1.8-4 <1.0-5 2.0-4 <1.0-5 SSB 29 FM 26 8 IC281H/146 05/95 4.8-4 <1-5 <1.0-5 7.4-3 1.1-3 TM251A/146 05/96 3.6-4 1.3-5 <1.0-5 2.2-3 2.9-4 C1208DA/146 05/96 3.9-4 1.7-5 <1.0-5 3.7-3 7.0-4 FT2500M/146 05/96 8.6-4 <1-5 <1.0-5 4.9-3 3.8-4 IC820H 05/96 2.7-4 <1-5 <1.0-5 5.1-4 <1.0-5 KS900/440 05/96 2.6-4 <1-5 <1.0-5 3.8-4 <1.0-5 DR135TP 01/01 5.9-4 1.0-5 <1.0-5 2.4-3 8.5-5 102 5 DR150T 11/96 2.7-4 <1-5 <1.0-5 6.5-3 1.6-3 165 3 FT3000M 11/96 1.8-3 1.1-4 2.3-5 6.6-3 4.7-4 75 4 TMD700A/146 05/00 8.3-4 2.4-5 <1.0-5 1.2-3 <1.0-5 58 7 TMD700A/440 05/00 6.5-4 3.0-5 <1.0-5 8.6-4 <1.0-5 55 7 FT2600M/146 12/99 1.8-3 6.8-5 <1.0-5 9.3-3 1.8-3 55 THF6A/146 12/01 2.1-3 5.9-5 <1.0-5 2.5-3 <1.0-5 200 6 THF6A/440 12/01 1.1-3 4.9-5 <1.0-5 1.8-3 <1.0-5 200 6 TS2000/146 07/01 7.9-5 <1-5 <1.0-5 1.7-4 <1.0-5 10 9 IC910/146 05/01 7.4-4 1.1-5 <1.0-5 1.5-3 <1.0-5 32 8 IC910/440 05/01 7.1-4 1.7-5 <1.0-5 1.6-3 <1.0-5 32 8 IC910/1240 05/01 9.4-4 <1-5 <1.0-5 1.7-3 <1.0-5 32 8 FT847/146 08/98 1.1-3 4.0-5 <1.0-5 2.1-4 <1.0-5 ssb 12 fm 11 9 FT847/440 08/98 1.1-3 4.0-5 <1.0-5 8.9-4 <1.0-5 ssb 12 fm 11 9 PCR1000/146 07/98 2.8-3 2.6-4 <1.0-5 PCR1000/440 07/98 4.3-3 4.0-4 <1.0-5 MFJ8621/146 04/96 3.5-3 1.7-5 <1.0-5 2.5-4 <1.0-5 <2 9 Non QST sources --------------- CP0530-factory >150 CP0530-N8UR mods 10 PCS4000 <10