Approximately the performance of an Orion without the stigma of reasonable
cost.
(with apologies to a '66 "Road and Track" comparing the new Porsche 911S to a
muscle car) We all need Orions in the name of frugality!
73,
Woody n5zu . .
In a message dated 4/21/2004 12:19:12 PM Central Daylight Time,
n5xm@alltel.net writes:
With anticipation, I opened the newest AES catalog, knowing it would be the
same old stuff with higher prices, and by darn if there wasn't a 2 page inside
cover ad for the high zoot IC-7800. This was the first time I'd actually
taken the time to look at the rig, and it's the busiest looking thing I've
ever seen in ANY kind of electronic gear.
About 1330 today, I worked a JA who was using one, and with the lousy band
condx, there wasn't much to say except I logged him. Anyway, I pulled out the
catalog again to give the ad a real close inspection, and that sucker has 125!
controls on the front panel. Unless I've counted incorrectly, my Orion is a
veritable desert at only 72 controls on the front panel.
I'm sure the 7800 is a wonderful platform, but where does this stuff
stop? Yaesu will soon have their DX 9,000,000 out, so what happens next? The
Ten Tec Uranus? I'll happily keep my Orion, thank you. What they need is a
built-in mouse connection and an on-display world map so that all you had to
do was point at a part of the world, and it would automatically change to a
frequency where the DX you wanted was on the air. I'm gonna have to polish up
my crystal ball, I guess. n5xm
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