Flex radio's new policy is to charge for a major revision, but not to
charge for updates and fixes to current versions.
Carl Moreschi N4PY
58 Hogwood Rd
Louisburg, NC 27549
www.n4py.com
On 4/10/2014 4:24 PM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
Rightly so.
Bug fixes should be for free but additional feature/functionality should
have a reasonable fee.
That gives the manufacturers an incentive to keep improving the firmware of
the older rigs.
73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Barry N1EU
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 10:11 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] How much should an ORION-III cost?
None right now but Flex will be.
Barry N1EU
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Bill NY9H<ny9h@arrl.net> wrote:
what radio manufacturer charges for update software???
bill ny9h/3
At 07:03 AM 4/10/2014, you wrote:
Whatever the name of the future flagship, Ten Tec needs to have a
price that allows them to make a profit. We should back them 100% on
this.
They aren't making a huge amount of money on these radios.
If the parts cost a certain amount and you double or triple that
it still wouldn't cover their costs. The price of the radio doesn't
account for all the years of software updates we look for.
Other companies sell you the radio then you have to pay for any
upgrades yearly. Maybe Ten Tec needs to go this way, I hope not.
I would think a price for this new rig would be around $6,000. If
was above that I would still buy one. I'm willing to pay more to
keep them in buisness. This price isn't going to break anyone here,
when I see all the other radios that we have in our shacks.
If you were to go into amateur astronomy take a look at the prices
of some of their flapship telescopes. They don't constantly upgrade
their software or harware for years to come.
Lee N3LPJ
----- Original Message ----- From: "K8JHR"<jrichards@k8jhr.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"<tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] How much should an ORION-III cost?
Good question, Rodney.
Nope... not kidding. Kenwood sells the TS-990 for $8,000, and it has
worse specifications than the $1500 TS-590 - AND GUYS ARE BUYING THEM.
I WOULD PAY $4440 for a radio that beats the Orion II which used to
cost around $4400. Yeah, but it MUST BEAT the Orion II, or I just
keep using mine.
------------------------ K8JHR -----------------
On 4/9/2014 3:59 PM, Rodney wrote:
You got to be kidding 4000.00
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