"Hands off perspective?" My perspective is a bit different. This is one of
the most "hands on" reflectors I've ever been on. Go back and read all the
Omni VI and VI+ threads from a few years back. Just because folks here
aren't big about open source firmware on fairly obscure processors and
algorithms, and TT shows no intent of opening access doesn't make this a
hands-off reflector. Far from it!
73, Duane
Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas
www.ac5aa.com
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From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Merle Bone
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 9:37 PM
To: tentec@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Technical Correspondence
Stuart (K5KVH) said:
"Amen Brother Bob! Well said. Even hardware suffers the fate of those who
think they know how to solder, etc."
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Bob (K4TAX) said:
"Now then, in this case, the radio is used on the air, in contests, and
receives other public exposure which may in many cases be poor
representation of the product."
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Paul (KD3AF) said:
"I like it in the closet"
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It seems pretty clear that there isn't much support from some of Ten-Tec's
customers for "direct amateur involvement" in the improvement of their
products - hardware or software. I guess that shouldn't be a surprise, but
being a member of a number of other reflectors - Tower Talk, Topband,
Amplifiers, DXBase, Elecraft and some others, I find the "hands-off"
perspective a bit unique to this reflector. I wonder if it really represents
the views of many of the hams on this reflector that have done the Orion mod
(Including soldering) to use the bandscope with the V2 code? Of if it
represents the views of those that have put in the INRAD roofing filter mod
in the Omni VI (X)?
For me, and I think many others from their participation on reflectors,
this hobby is all about continuous learning and trying to improve receivers,
antennas, amplifiers et. al. I think that has been part of this hobby since
its inception and has always involved amateurs experimenting and testing new
hardware techniques and, more recently, newly developed or modified
software. Discussions that explore ideas on new ways to do that seem
perfectly on target to me.
Can you say "appliance?"
73, Merle - W0EWM
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