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[Toby Pennington]

What about calling it The Double Eagle   Toby K4NH

On 5/7/2014 1:51 AM, K8JHR wrote:
> Hmmm ...  OK, thanks for the uptake.   Of course, it would never be as 
> simple as all that!
>
> I will have to read more about it because my friend did not mention 
> such distinctions and details, and left me with the impression the big 
> screen was pretty much just the little one writ large.  He gave me an 
> instruction book written by a third party ham (not an Elecraft 
> employee) which appears to explain the the rig in great detail, so I 
> will research these things more closely.
>
> As for TenTec...  my wish list is simple:
>
> Update the Omni VII with a second receiver, and with both receivers 
> based on the newer Eagle-RS366-Argonaut platform. Include an 
> appropriate RF or IF or whatever output would enable a large screen 
> spectrum scope - and while I appreciate the comments it should not run 
> on the main computer, I would not mind if it did, as I can always get 
> a second computer screen (one can, of course, have multiple screens on 
> a single computer these days...) - and I would like to see it have a 
> new 5o v,  200 w PA (like Rich DJ0IP calls for) - and it would have 
> diversity sound in the earphones like the Orion II does - and dual 
> speaker outputs (er, like a stereo speaker output),  and  have both 
> USB and Serial ports - improve AGC and NR - give it a facelift and 
> call it the Omni 8 - and sell loads of 'em.   The large screen 
> spectrum scope would either update constantly like ICOM rigs or the 
> Orion II and one could tune the rig with a mouse on the screen.
>
> But - skip the outboard panadapter box, and pump data right to a 
> computer screen or to a computer with a large screen the way a Flex 
> radio does.  All that would get me to part with some of my hard earned 
> brass.
>
> Thanks for the uptake... back to the books to read what my friend 
> forgot to tell me!
>
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