IF you watch what is being upgraded or put into the software it is fringe
stuff ! The basic cw and ssb works fine as is ! Now if you want to type and
have it send and receive some weird keyboard mode that nobody but a few
weirdoes want to use you will have to wait until they poke it into the
software in a year or so :-) I don't think I use a quarter of the FEATURES
in my ORION II thingy and never will but it is a GREAT cw / ssb receiver and
so is my K-3 as it is :-) The tentec reflector guys seem to want some kind
of water fall display or something and I have that FEATURE turned off any
way, oh poor me , woes me, how stupid I am !! ..................... duh !!
Walt K8CV Royal Oak, MI.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Sole" <msole@loxinfo.co.th>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion and O II Firmware Update?
As I understand this is necessary to fix whatever it was they broke in
the previous release. Which I think nicely proves my point about why
Ten-Tec will not do that it's a lesson they probably learned with V1.xxx
and V2.xxx. I think it will become more common though, especially at the
consumer level. If people are happy with it. Tinkerers, yes, appliance
ops who want what their buddy says is a great rig, maybe, guys who want
to pay and go, possibly not. Don't get me wrong I have been following
the K3 story since the Visalia launch and am almost decided to get one.
I do like a lot of the things about the radio I'm not sure though that I
can really feel comfortable with a radio that gets better incrementally
until after what, 5, maybe ten years from now it is where my
expectations are today. That would just make me grumpy.
I work for a small part of a very large organisation whose ethos is
'right FIRST time' but then the military don't like to be beta testers
as a rule. I'm still curious to know how they are going to make all this
software engineering effort pay.
Martin, HS0ZED
fraz1 wrote:
Hi Martin:
Ssssssh! Please don't tell Elecraft. They're doing it in months, weeks,
and days!
73 John K4NP
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