[TenTec] Orion Record

[k2zn at rochester.rr.com]

The type of RX antenna and QTH noise floor certainly play no small part as well.  My Omni V is no slouch in the RX capability dept., but I could never hear the beacon when the power dropped below 5 mW due to my urban cacaphony of EMI/RFI/etc.

Al, K2ZN

----- Original Message -----
From: Lee Crocker <w9oy at yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 1:13 pm
Subject: [TenTec] Orion Record

> I'd say it's more like a W4ZV record.  The Orion is
> only as good as the guy doing the listening and I
> think this guy listens pretty good.  When I listened I
> could just barely convince myself there was actually
> something coherent about the noise.   
> 
> 73  W9OY 
>