Heh... even us 'Yankees' like NASCAR !!
Seriously though, I think it is important to be carefull to separate our
preferences from 'real' bugs.
We all like/dislike certain features. This doesn't make them good, or make
them bugs either. In my view, a bug is something that doesn't work as it
was designed to work. A feature that works as designed, but that I don't
like, is not a bug.
Anyway, if anyone wants to give me their Orion, I'll be glad to accept it,
'bugs' -so called- and all !
73 de Gary, AA2IZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Fulling" <w4njf@midflorida.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion heartache
> Hello Scott,
> I don't own an Orion can't afford one right now but do own a Jupiter and
am
> very happy with it.What really ticks me off on this so called TT reflector
> site are the half dozen or so people that monopolize it 24/7 that do not
use
> or own TT ham gear.My personal "redneckNASCAR" opinion of them is reading
> their endless posts about how bad,poor programmed ,etc TT gear is as
> compared to their KENYAECOMM stuff is sort of like
> listening to Rusty bellyaching about Dale's Chevy when Rusty drives a
Ford!
> If they don't own or use TT gear-ignore them!
> 73 de Bill W4NJF
>
> Bill Fulling
> w4njf@email.midflorida.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ten-Tec Inc. Amateur Radio Sales" <sales@tentec.com>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 9:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion heartache
>
>
> > At 04:59 PM 4/9/03 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> > > Although I stand behind my Orion statements, I never posted them,
nor
> > > were they intended for public disclosure.
> > >
> > > There have been eleven Orion firmware updates since v1.328 of March
> > > 28th. There are literally hundreds of software bugs in the control
> program.
> > > 73, Alan K2WS
> >
> > Good morning:
> >
> > I am sorry, but that statement is patently false. There are not
'hundreds
> > of bugs'
> > in anything that we build. I read the long post here on the reflector,
> > and it's
> > obvious that you didn't agree with our user-interface design philosophy
> for
> > the Orion.
> > There is not a whole lot that can be done to overcome that - and that's
> why
> > we have a 30 day trial period and don't require an advance deposit for
> > anything that Ten-Tec builds.
> >
> > We could just as easily make *fewer* revisions to the Orion firmware and
> > not release the revision history - that doesn't strike me as being in
sync
> with
> > our philosophy of 'telling it like it is' (for lack of a better term).
> >
> > There have been some comments about "Gee - you better not say anything
> > bad on the reflector about Ten-Tec's products, or else...." - I think
any
> > long-time reader of this forum will have seen everything from blind
praise
> > to outright hostility over the entire spectrum of what we do. The
beauty
> > of contesting.com is that it's archived for handy reference later.
> >
> > 73
> > Scott Robbins, W4PA
> >
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