[ICOM] 756 Pro III vs. Tentec Orion

[Bill Tippett]

K6SE:
 >I'm a DXer and a contester and I had the Orion and didn't like many
things about it, so I got a refund and bout the Pro 2.  The Pro 2 proved
to be able to dig the extremely weak CW signals out of the noise far
better than the Orion could.

http://www.eham.net/articles/10078
A radio signal with 2000 times less power than it takes to light a digit on 
an alarm clock, was successfully received by William Tippett of New London, 
NC. Barely two weeks since setting his last world record on the 80 meter 
radio band, Tippett, Amateur radio operator W4ZV, correctly copied Morse 
code word GOLD from the N2XE beacon transmitting with a peak carrier power 
of 27 millionths of a watt. Tippett confirmed reception of the beacon at 
1153Z, January 17, 2005. The precise distance between the two stations is 
546.8 miles, establishing Tippett's record reception at 20,221,893 miles 
per watt. Tippett used a Ten Tec Orion Transceiver with a 1000 foot 
Beverage antenna (named after Dr. Harold Beverage who invented it in the 
1920s).

73,  Bill  W4ZV