[Orion] Truth in Advertising...Icom Style

[Barry N1EU]

Bill Tippett <btippett at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

>Under the same conditions at 5 kHz
>spacing—something much more akin
>to real-world amateur conditions (and
>this time well within the passband of the
>receiver’s 15 kHz roofing filter)—we
>determined the PROIII’s TOI to be
>–17 dBm, 1.8 dB better than the –18.8 dBm
>we calculated for its predecessor."
>***********************************************
>

I didn't understand Bill's calculated superiority of the Orion until I realized he omitted the two minus signs from the Pro3's figures.  It should have read -17dBm and -18.8dBm respectively.

73,
Barry N1EU

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