It may not be the same tuner. I haven't opened my II to look at the boards. According to the information mill, T-T dropped the relationship with LDG (who supplied the Orion tuners) and is supposedly
... or even some news on the Orion II .. :-) We've had the "1Q-06 rumor", the "v2.0 out last Monday rumor" (already debunked), and others. Would be nice to get even a tiny morsel of an update from th
I'm not really in hurry up mode either. I'd rather have it in (nearly, at least) bug free condition when it arrives. It would be nice to have some idea of the current state of things, though. In the
I think PT Barnum had something to say about anyone who considers modern radio equipment an "investment", or even expects it to hold it's value. It's a depreciable asset, no more no less, with a rap
I guess we're going to go through the "display" wars all over again with the O-II :-( It would be interesting and educational to know just what you feel is missing, and if it is is missing, how you
Well, there's an Orion II ad in QST this month. Sure wish it had been a "real" picture. I want to see what I'm getting before it arrives on the doorstep and I'm then faced with explaining yet another
No, it shows something "in-between" the Orion and Orion II -- with the black and white display "curled" at one corner to reveal a color rainbow underneath. The radio has an Orion II logo. Other than
Glad to hear it went well. I talked to Stan last week, and am going to be sending mine in for all of the updates in the next couple of weeks. Figure if I decide to sell it after the O-II arrives, it
I don't have an exact number. For my Orion, which is out of the original shipped batch and has none of the updates installed, I was told about 1 1/2 hours labor plus shipping both ways. Don't recall
This may have passed across here, and I missed it. The O-II uses a new series of roofing filters. Does anyone know if the existing Orion option filters can be used in the II, or if they are incompati
That's what I thought. Just wanted to confirm it before I put my option filters (T-T 1.8 and 500, and the 600 (for the 1 Khz slot) on the block :-) Grant/NQ5T
Flex staffers/reps were still downplaying CW performance (that means that when the subject came up there were a lot of averted glances, mumbling and equivocating), at least as of Dallas Ham-Com in J