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From: nq5t@attbi.com (Grant Youngman)
Date: Fri May 16 23:14:12 2003
Saw the pic.  Truly one of the ugliest radios the Pacific has yet 
produced ... 

Grant/NQ5T

> Hi Jim,
> 
> Interesting you mention that 7800, I saw the photo of
> the "Mother of ALL HF transceivers" at the Gigaparts
> website and it was under glass. Oh yeah, many many
> processors and maybe like the old PC's they will have
> open sockets for "DSP coprocessors". 
> 
> For all those guys that though Orion is HUGE, well I
> guess with the 7800 you will need to pour a tower base
> under radio! Enormous. 
> 
> 73,
> de WB8YQJ/6
> 
> 
> --- Jim Reid <jimr.reid@verizon.net> wrote:
> > > Bet nothing says that Jim can't meet the plane and
> > ride 
> > > with the delivery truck to make sure that the
> > driver 
> > > knows the way . . .
> > 
> > We have only ONE  road between the Lihue airport and
> > Koloa,  hi.  And,  the Fed Ex driver has been here
> > many
> > times before delivering stuff from Ten Tec.  He
> > knows
> > the way.  Anyway,  the FE tracking site still has no
> > update in the past 2 1/2 hours; no indication of
> > arrival here
> > on the island,  nor into a van for delivery as the
> > usually
> > show.
> > 
> > How about that Icom IC-7800 unveiled at Dayton
> > today:
> > Four 32 bit DSP processors and a 7 inch LCD color
> > multi function display.  Wonder by how much the
> > price,
> > as not yet announced, will exceed 2x's the price for
> > an Orion??  Guess that is why Icom had to hire all 
> > those added DSP engineers -- to decide how to
> > use not two,  but four SOA DSP processors.  Suppose
> > this is sort of a horsepower race?
> > 
> > 73,  Jim  KH7M
> > 
> > 
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