[TenTec] IC-7800 Expanded Test Report

[John]

Good idea Clark !  I sugguested this a few years ago and got a cold response
from the list .  John kb2huk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clark Savage Turner" <csturner at kcbx.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] IC-7800 Expanded Test Report


> I know many of us bemoan the fact that QST, in their general readership
> journal, does not really "get to the point" in explaining rig
> comparisons to the lay amateur (vs. "professional" amateur, of course,
> like most of us here!)
>
> So, one more time, I sure wish MY ARRL (I continue to be a member)
> would do me the favor of truly comparing rigs and ranking them in
> various rational ways.  They almost did this with tuners a while back,
> ranking them for internal loss, but they didn't really look at
> currently available models.  Now, is this because we are not submitting
> such articles?
>
> What would happen if one of us wrote an article ranking receivers along
> various dimensions like close-in BDR and phase noise (co-author it with
> Sherwood?) and explain what it might mean to the average amateur vs.
> the amateur with extraordinary antennas and a quiet location?  This
> would be a service to (me!) the general amateur community and help them
> to compare rigs for their own situations and to be realistic about the
> specs of various rigs.  I am not an RF engineer, so I'm not qualified
> to write this, but I'd certainly be willing to help (edit, coordinate,
> provide rigs from my shack, do simple tests....)
>
> Wonder what QST editors would do if the article was good and fair?
> (They are good and fair people over there).
>
> Clark
> WA3JPG
>
>
> On Jul 18, 2004, at 6:48 AM, Bill Tippett wrote:
>
> .....(comparison of Orion with 7800 specs deleted for brevity, you
> already know the story :-)
>
> > So much for "astonishing, unparalleled, ultimate" and other
> > unabashed Icom marketing hype about the 7800.
> >
> > 73,  Bill  W4ZV
>
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