Here's another thread that can go on forever!
I hope the Orion is NEVER finished. As long as it continues to get better,
my ROI with this rig just keeps going up.
Also, a word to all of you who do not yet (for whatever reason) own an
Orion: Yes, many of us complain about this and that and most of it
eventually gets fixed, but one thing I honestly believe is that since about
October last year, there is no other rig on the market that I would be
happier with than the Orion. Most of the minor things patched and fixed
to-date have not been issues to me in the way I work with the radio. If
they have been issues to me, then they were minor - trivial. Even the
(missing) PTT CW was just a minor issue to me. I can live just fine without
it but I am even happier now that it's been added. Notice I said "addid",
not "fixed". And that my friends is what I like about this radio. Nice
things can be added - at no additional cost.
Perhaps people continue to complain here because there is good reason for
hope that their complaints will be heard, and then fixed. On other
manufacturers' user group reflectors, I can imagine that many have simply
given up complaining because the only fix is "buy a new radio" - except of
course for Elecraft! Elecraft is similar to Ten-Tec. I am very happy with
both, even though you may have heard criticism from me (for both) from time
to time.
I hope that the days of "erogant vendors" is finished - not the Orion.
Who knows, maybe SDR will return some good vendor-customer relationship to
all brands.
73
Rick
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