Ten Tec hasn?t historically been one to do the ?me too? approach partially because they have hard time competing production cost-wise to offer the same touchy feelly panel ergonomics (that mimic the
Awe come on guys, isn?t anyone else going to take a shot at commenting on all 4 of Larry?s (VA3LK) original questions as they pertain to the Orion? Or pickup on Larry?s even broader challenge about d
Now if it includes a 100Mb Ethernet connection and 100% remote control capability via that Ethernet port I'll buy the first one. If it is also offered in a appropriately lower priced no front panel v
I have confidence that the Orion synthesizer will be very quiet in terms of phase noise. And I'm also not too worried about internal digital noise coupling issues either. However the main point I thi
<snip> I agree, and to be with a company that maintains a decently active effort in developing updated firmware code. In the new world of software defined radios the importance of an active and aggre
I too fret about RCA connectors for power uses, they are a disaster waiting to happen. On all of my Down East Microwave transverters I went so far as to replace all power RCA's with pig tail leads. I
When QST reviewed the 2000 they were so enamored with all of those buttons and menus too. It seemed like whenever they ran out of nice things to say about it they would keep bringing up those menus a
Capping the unused power RCA's on the radio side surely is a good idea. However that's only half of the potential problem. If you use RCA male to male jumper cables for power purposes you still have
While I can't fault TT for putting a lot of thought and effort into building a traditional front panel radio, that is a large static market after all. I am however disappointed that they apparently a
Caution: Contains humor. It seems that so much of the recent discussion has focused on the looks of the Orion vs. what's actually in it or how well it will interface to the new technology world. FWIW
There is a widely held misconception that Flash ROM alone will make the radio last forever, not true. Without doubt though it will extend the useful life significantly in terms of obsolescence, .....
Icom is by no means unique to the behavior of obsoleting previous models quickly, all of the import manufacturers tend to do that. Also keep in mind that the imported radios can and do frequently get
<snip> Very true, I believe that there would be a sizeable market for a model in the $2000-2200 range. Another market that needs to be addressed is offering each of these models in both a front panel
Does it necessarily represent "less" sophistication? On the contrary, I think it could be argued it actually represents more, at a minimum a higher degree of cleverness. As an example the unsophistic
I'm sure many would, but unless there is a viable means to protect from firmware piracy it would be difficult to make a good business case to support charging for the firmware upgrades. I believe Kac
These kinds of shortcomings are not specific to DSP designs. Any RX that has a ton of mixers will share these issues. This is precisely why I'm partial to a direct conversions scheme along the lines
As long as the A/D conversion stage is not being overloaded, has good S/N, and sufficient bits it should be quite good. But I'll acknowledge that is where the challenge lies. Perhaps that challenge a
I suspect that these kinds of issue will become hotly debated in the contesting circles before long. The obvious advantage for having Hey, you've just described many of the key elements of my dream r
Whoa there, as much as find all this talk of these stratospheric technologies for inter-networking processors interesting, we are after all talking about amateur radio equipment that needs to be pric
I don't think that is totally true. While I have no illusions that every conceivable narrowband mode could be done with the existing Pegasus/Jupiter hardware, quite the contrary. I am however convinc