Saw the pic. Truly one of the ugliest radios the Pacific has yet
produced ...
Grant/NQ5T
> Hi Jim,
>
> Interesting you mention that 7800, I saw the photo of
> the "Mother of ALL HF transceivers" at the Gigaparts
> website and it was under glass. Oh yeah, many many
> processors and maybe like the old PC's they will have
> open sockets for "DSP coprocessors".
>
> For all those guys that though Orion is HUGE, well I
> guess with the 7800 you will need to pour a tower base
> under radio! Enormous.
>
> 73,
> de WB8YQJ/6
>
>
> --- Jim Reid <jimr.reid@verizon.net> wrote:
> > > Bet nothing says that Jim can't meet the plane and
> > ride
> > > with the delivery truck to make sure that the
> > driver
> > > knows the way . . .
> >
> > We have only ONE road between the Lihue airport and
> > Koloa, hi. And, the Fed Ex driver has been here
> > many
> > times before delivering stuff from Ten Tec. He
> > knows
> > the way. Anyway, the FE tracking site still has no
> > update in the past 2 1/2 hours; no indication of
> > arrival here
> > on the island, nor into a van for delivery as the
> > usually
> > show.
> >
> > How about that Icom IC-7800 unveiled at Dayton
> > today:
> > Four 32 bit DSP processors and a 7 inch LCD color
> > multi function display. Wonder by how much the
> > price,
> > as not yet announced, will exceed 2x's the price for
> > an Orion?? Guess that is why Icom had to hire all
> > those added DSP engineers -- to decide how to
> > use not two, but four SOA DSP processors. Suppose
> > this is sort of a horsepower race?
> >
> > 73, Jim KH7M
> >
> >
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