When I unpacked my Orion the Main tuning knobs fell off. I guess that's why
they give you the hex keys.
The main display was unreadable, a bright almost white light. It took some
reading of a very poor manual to figure out how to correct the problem with
the cheap LCD screen.
This is piss poor American quality control.
The manual is a joke. It looks like something a kid would do in his
basement. Again poor proof reading, and very little info for a novice user.
These are statements of facts people.
As for the performance of the radio I can not comment as yet.
I will use my Yaesu Ft 1000 MP/MkV and a Icom 756 ProII to do an A, B and C
comparison.
My thoughts about the radio are, without Carl's N4YP software I would send
it back, the display is real cheap for the touted radio quality. I don't
like a multi function control which does everything from a menu. I do admit
the box looks better in person than in the pictures. And what's with an ALC
light ????? Why did Ten Tec use a mini stereo phone plug for the paddle
input ???? Everyone else uses a standard 1/4" plug.
Hey, a $3,500 radio and NO mic ??????
I have had my Orion for about 2 weeks and it works OK accept for the sweep
display issues and unstable display.
These are my first impressions, lets hope the radio performance can redeem
itself.
de Skip K3CC
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