Re: [TenTec] Is Orion really worth it? Given the published problems?

["James Duffer" <dufferjames@hotmail.com>]

> From: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>
> Reply-To: Ron Castro <ronc@sonic.net>,Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment 
> <tentec@contesting.com>
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Is Orion really worth it? Given the published 
> problems?
> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:35:03 -0700
SNIP
> You either have received a special beta copy of the firmware that the rest
> of the users on this list have not had access to (I thought Bob Sherwood 
> was
> the only one!), you haven't used your radio enough to notice the above
> problems, or you're not discerning enough to know how a good radio should
> operate.  If the latter is the case, don't worry...there are lots of folks
> who can't tell the difference between a Ford and Mercedes, and folks who
> drive Porsches, but only to church and never over 55 MPH.  There are lots 
> of
> hams who buy expensive, high-performance radios who only use them to check
> into an old-farts net on 40 only to say "QRU and QRV here...back to the 
> net"
> once a week or to tell their cronies about their latest medical maladies. 
> In
> that case, none of the above matters and an FT-101 would work fine.
SNIP

This may be so, but at least they appear to be enjoying themselves and 
having fun using their equipment.  I guess the Mercedes has more complexity 
and prone to breakdown.  I think think I prefer the Ford.
73, Jim de wd4air