[ICOM] Re: 756 Pro III vs. Tentec Orion

[Scott Manthe]

Bill,
Anyone interested in reading your press releases can do so on eHam- there's 
no need to share them with us here. 

By the way, I'd like to hear audio of your Orion copying that signal. Is 
there anywhere we can download a sound file of the record-setting event? 

73,
Scott, N9AA 

Bill Tippett writes: 

> 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