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

[David J. Ring, Jr.]

I am very happy Bill posted this here; it was short enough for a quote.

It shows me what our ICOMS are capable of.

Praise should come from us, any rebuke should have only come from the list 
owner.

I am happy when people accomplish something in a hobby I love.

73
David Ring, N1EA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Manthe" <n9aa at arrl.net>
To: "ICOM Reflector" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 8:04 PM
Subject: [ICOM] Re: 756 Pro III vs. Tentec Orion


> 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
>
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