Re: [TenTec] Will tomorrow be the day Orion owners havebeenwaitingfor?

["Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>]

3:57 pm in Sevierville, TN...still nothing on the website...

        Ron   N6IE
     www.N6IE.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Will tomorrow be the day Orion owners 
havebeenwaitingfor?

> Now, I don't want any disappointed ham to hang himself with a piece of
> RG-8/U!  The lousy band conditions are depressing enough.  Pass the 
> Xanax...
>         Ron Castro
> Chief Technical Officer
>    Results Radio, LLC
>               N6IE
>      www.N6IE.com
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Frazier" <fraz1@bellsouth.net>
> To: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>; "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
> <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Will tomorrow be the day Orion owners have
> beenwaitingfor?
>
>
> > Geeeez Ron.....
> >
> > I thought I was the only one suffering from anxiety over the pending
> > release!  No sleep at all last night......and tonight will be a 10mg
> > Ambien
> > night.
> > Gosh......tomorrow........tomorrow.....????
> >
> > 73 John K4NP
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net>
> > To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:09 PM
> > Subject: [TenTec] Will tomorrow be the day Orion owners have been
> > waitingfor?
> >
> >
> > > The excitement is building as Orion and Orion II owners anticipate the
> > > arrival of the first firmware update for their fine rigs in nearly two
> > > years.  Never mind the Oscars, the Grammys, or even the Pulitzer, this
> > > 'red-carpet' event has hams around the planet repeatedly aiming their
> > > browsers at the Ten Tec Downloads page to see if anything new has shown
> > > up!
> > >
> > > The recent e-mail that the beta testing was finished and that the 
> > > factory
> > > planned a release by the end of the week, plus an observation I made a
> > > couple of years ago that most previous releases came on Fridays, has us
> > > all anticipating the big arrival.  If it does come tomorrow, it would be
> > > well-timed for the start of the  ARRL International CW DX contest, a
> > > perfect place to put the new code to the ultimate test!
> > >
> > > This time tomorrow, will we be jubilantly ruling the bands, sporting the
> > > "K3 killer" code, or will be be tossing and turning in our beds thinking
> > > "maybe next week..."?  Join us again tomorrow for another exciting
> > > adventure of "As the Tuning Dial Turns"!
> > >
> > >
> > >         Ron  N6IE
> > >      www.N6IE.com
> > >
> > > <Thank you, thank you.  I'll be here every night till Thursday.  Try the
> > > veal.  Don't forget to tip the waitress!>
> > >
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