Just following all the complaints and praises of the Orion 2. I just
noticed that Hilberling have updated their product pages with specs and
prices.
It seems perfect engineering does have its price, at 2 to 3 times the
Orions price!
http://www.hilberling.de/produkte/pt-8000a.htm
There is no mention of Ultimate receiver specs at 2 khz spacing. But it
certainly has used some state of the art RF design techniques like, high
voltage mosfets and , Diplexer filters in the PA. The PA has very
respectable 3rd order IMD numbers, i dont know if it has a calibrated S
meter.
It seems the designers have been listening to the many complaints about
contemporary ham radio transceiver design problems. The construction is
certainly impressive, it looks like something from R&S.
Whose going to be the first run this 15,000 Euro Dollar wonder up
against the Orion2? We all would be interested!
Craig
VK3HE
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