Maybe they were all bought up by contesters so you never hear them because they
are intended to be
rigs for competitive operating. To put it another way, if 95% of my operating
were just hanging out
with the guys on the phone ragchew bands (these days 20 - 160) which BTW is 95%
of my operating, I'd be running a ragchew rig, something $1.5K less. So, since
casual ragchewing is where hams talk about their rigs and listeners find out
what they are running and the Orion isn't a rig for that, you don't hear about
them. They may be on the air, but in pileups and guys saying CQ contest over
and over again. Just out of curiousity, for everyone who owns an Orion but
isn't into dx paper chasing and contesting, but mostly ragchews, why did you
purchase such a high end rig?
Rob Atkinson
K5UJ
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