[TenTec] "Being a Contrarian . . ."

[Mike Hyder -N4NT-]

That's right.  And Bill Gates said that nobody would ever need more than 
640K of RAM in a computer.

N4NT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Rippey" <w3uls at 3n.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 9:31 AM
Subject: [TenTec] "Being a Contrarian . . ."


> Last evening I looked up the QST review of the ORION II and found
> something of note from a contrarian's point of view:
>
> The close-in receive specs for the "subreceiver" are in the 70 dB range.
> As I understand it, the subreceiver is basically a Jupiter (no steroids
> here). And having read (I believe it was R. Sherwood) someone's saying
> that 70 dB IMD3 is about all anyone will ever need 95% of the time, the
> old Jupiter holds up pretty well in distinguished company.
>
> Happy Sunday & 73,
> John, W3ULS