The big thing with Flex is the panadapter. The SSB performance of both the
Orion and Flex 5000 is great. My software can easily provide a great
panadapter for the Orion with LP-Pan if you want to do the VE7TK mod, or
with an inexpensize Flex 1500 without the mod.
Carl Moreschi N4PY
121 Little Bell Drive
Hays, NC 28635
www.n4py.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Kirschner" <frank@fkirschner.net>
To: "N4PY2" <n4py2@earthlink.net>; "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
<tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Comparison of Ten Tec Orion II with Flex 500A
> That's probably enough to make the difference; I operate a lot of CW.
>
> If the SSB performance is much better with the Flex, that might move me
> back
> to undecided.
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> Frank
> KF6E
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:02 PM, N4PY2 <n4py2@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> They are both great radios. The biggest difference is on CW. The Flex
>> radios have no CW QSK and the internal keyer in the Flex radios has
>> latency
>> which makes using the internal keyer difficult.
>>
>> Carl Moreschi N4PY
>> 121 Little Bell Drive
>> Hays, NC 28635
>> www.n4py.com
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Frank Kirschner" <kirschne@erols.com>
>> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 2:50 PM
>> Subject: [TenTec] Comparison of Ten Tec Orion II with Flex 500A
>>
>>
>> > All,
>> >
>> > I realize that the two are very different realizations of transceivers,
>> > but
>> > from an operating standpoint, does anyone have any experience or
>> > observations? The cost is about the same for the two (or close
>> > enough
>> > that I'm considering them both). Which "works" better? Ability to
>> > hear
>> > signals, ability to transmit a signal that will be heard?
>> >
>> > I've read reviews of both, but without hands-on experience, there's no
>> way
>> > for me to compare, and I don't want to buy both.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > 73,
>> > Frank
>> > KF6E
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