Through my commercial contacts, I have established that the price point will
compare favorably with the Orion. However as an innovative marketing
approach, Icom is offering a $1,000 owner loyalty rebate to current Icom
owners. As an incentive to "cross over customers" a $2000 "welcome" rebate
will be awarded to current TenTec users. After all $$$ that's what it's about.
The most amazing part of the rebate scenero is even "swap out"provision for
current Orion owners. gee, I wonder what those technical types in the Far East
will do with all those new TenTecs... Larry GreenbergN5BEA--- On Sat 03/13,
Grant Youngman < nq5t@comcast.net > wrote:
From: Grant Youngman [mailto: nq5t@comcast.net]To: tentec@contesting.comDate:
Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:25:33 -0600Subject: Re: [TenTec] QST April ArticleIt may
not be available initially. There has been some discussion on the 7800 group at
Yahoo that Icom is "looking" at how best to do it.It is unclear, but if it's
not in the initial release, then it may be necessary for early adopters to ship
the radio off to get the feature -- can't download the download update until
you can download .. so to speak.Grant/NQ5T> yes you can update the software,
look on the back there is a rj45; and> in the operator's manual, which is on
the web, they talk about the ip> address.> > AND THAT AD ... IS SAD
...> > I hope that ad is from a Japanese ad agency, then there MIGHT be
an> available excuse in a cultural difference.> > >
>Bernard,> >> >Doesn't look like it. It does have a slot for a
compact flash card,> >but this is for transferring setting
s I think. I have not seen> >anything about updates that way.>
>> >Dick, N5XRD> >> >> >> >> >> I
read the ad rather carefully, but couldn't determine if you> >>
could> >>update the Icom's software over the net like you can the
Orion. > >>Anyone know if that is possible? If not, I would say that
the Orion> >>has a rather substantial advantage and that Icom missed
the boat.> >_______________________________________________>
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