I am going to call it what it is...so if you are offended...get over
it. I
still love my Orion II and you can't have it. I am just growing a bit
tired
of hopeful wishing that it will become what it is advertised as being.
I have spent the last few days reading tons of stuff on the Flex Radio
SDR-1000. These guys really have their act together.
I loved the release notes. They state what the bug was...who
reported...who
fixed fixed it...how it was fixed and so on.
You can log into your account and get status on bugs you have
submitted.
AMAZING concept.
It beats calling into Tentec and talking to a particular PM bringing up
points that have been covered on this site and all he says is he
doesn't
pay
attention to this reflector. If he is reading this I hope he remembers
that
call because I felt pretty darn slided after that remark which I
softened
up
for this E-mail.
Then dealing with tentec support on the Orion and Orion II. I
complained
for
the longest time about the horrible static in my headset after an
upgrade
to
2.034. I can't count the times I was told by tentec that it was my
headphones. It turns out that it was the line-level output being set to
high
or medium that caused the static/popping or whatever you want to call
it
into my headset. Set the line level output to low and problem went
away.
Still confused on that relationship. So the lectures of using the good
old
fashion communication headsets of the WWII days were reasonably
pointless.
The release notes or nothing short of pathetic. I just love the 2 or 3
bullets on fixes when in the background a ton of stuff happened.
Perhaps
the
reflector has been slow because people are just sick of the same ol'
response of...well it works here, not sure what your problem is. For
God
Sakes TenTec...tell us what is going on with your fixes on the NR and
notch.
Let us in on the AGC rethink and the smeter response. You got a great
product in the works...now finish the damn job.
I really enjoy my Orion II but this piss poor release schedule, failure
to
keep us posted on what's being addressed and so on has me pretty bent
after
reading how well the flex project is going. My heart goes out to the
Orion I
owners who got handed crap with v2. So I guess when the Orion III comes
out
then I will be in the same boat.
This is a great rig that can be even better. There are some pretty
technical
folks here like Grant and and a few (many others ) that impress the
hell
out
of me for being more than just appliance operators. and they just seem
to
be
ignored. Great...so the Orion II bumped the Drake off the close order
IMD
chart of Sherwood's as being number one. Now lets get everything else
working TenTec!
There...I have been wanting to say this for 6 months and now it is off
my
chest!
And I don't care if this offended anyone because it was my money spent
on
marketing hype...not yours! and if you don't agree that there are still
issues with the Orion then you don't know how to use your radio and
would
have been better off with the IC-7800.
Doug / K0ZU