[Yaesu] Best $600 contest rig

[Steve Harrison]

At 01:12 PM 9/24/2006 -0700, Jack/NA7RF wrote:
> From the Sherwood web site, the Noise Floor, BDR, Dynamic Range (wide) 
>and Dynamic Range (narrow):
>
>TS-180s: -139/115/70/68
>
>IC-720A: -137/138/93/78
>
>These numbers are consistent with the ARRL Lab results. Just look at the 
>BDR and wide Dynamic Range numbers. That's a huge difference under very 
>strong signal contest conditions!

I always heard the 180S wasn't much more than a pedestrian radio, so I
never looked much at one. It didn't look very sexy in the stores to me,
either.

Steve, K0XP