At 11:34 PM 6/10/04 -0600, W6LX wrote:
Wow. This is very, very interesting. Does anybody remember the uproar
surrounding the Orion's price when it was first announced? Thirty-three
hundred dollars, and everybody practically fainted. Just go back and
read the threads and feel the anxiety: How could they charge that much?
How can the little guy afford it? Does it really do that much more?
And on the "Ten-Tec listens to customers" theme, I can assure you that
the commentary about how $3300 was very high for an HF transceiver
back in 2002 definitely had an impact on our decision to not put a color
screen in the Orion. That was the whole point of bringing out the Orion
at the 2002 Charlotte Hamfest - so we could get direct feedback on
what we were doing. Same motivation for Icom and Yaesu showing the
IC7800 and FTDX9000 well in advance of availability.
In 2002, I thought $3300 was a lot of money for an HF transceiver -
even one as good as the Orion is. I still think so today.
Scott Robbins W4PA
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