Tim wrote:
> Hi folks -
> Is it my imagination or is the response to the Orion rather
> subdued? Has anyone set there's down next to a 756 Pro II
> for A/B comp? I'd love to know any impressions about the
> two rigs compared.
If propagation over on the US mainland is anything as it is
out here near mid-Pacific, there are few signals to work,
or compare anything with!
Pretty hard to get excited about any rig with the K index bouncing
around from 3 to 5, as it has the last 20 hours or so, and for
days before; and the solar flux is around 100!
All day yesterday I was monitoring the various No. Cal. DX
beacons about the globe. From 6:30 AM and for the next 12 hours,
there were only very weak signals from the Pacific rim beacons:
Calif., ZL, VR, and JA,; and an occasional peep from LU.
Often the Hong Kong and New Zealand beacons were a bit louder
that the one from California. JA was weak, and not often heard.
Don't have an Orion out here yet, but if I did I would be sitting
here very disappointed, not in the rig, but with the lack of
signals!
Bet it is about the same on the mainland, hi.
Oh well..........
73, Jim KH7M
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