" At the moment, no anticipated delivery date
for the high speed sweep board for the
Omni-VII and Orion II. There is not going to be much of anything
coming from us for Amateur Radio until
the RX-400 is built and delivered -- which will happen in the first half
of 2008."
I think this very clearly says no more updates for the Orion and Orion II
until the second half of 2008.
Carl Moreschi N4PY
121 Little Bell Drive
Bell Mountain
Hays, NC 28635
----- Original Message -----
From: "Merle Bone" <merlebone@charter.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ten-Tec commitment to customers...
> K5KVH said:
> "Many owners do not seem to report the issues you have. Maybe you got a
> particular radio that has bugs. "
>
> NQ5T said:
> "Seriously, there are still some things all of us would like to see
> "improved", depending or whether your point of view is that something is
> broken, or "it doesn't work the way I want it to and I paid for it to work
> THE WAY I WANT IT TO", or I couldn't break the pileup because I couldn't
> hear the guy (and you think you would have heard him on something else?),
or
> something."
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------
> I believe a lot of bugs/issues are well documented and known by Ten-Tec. I
have personally exchanged over 15 written letters and many emails with both
Jack Burchfield - one of the RF designers on the Orion/Orion II - and with
Gary - VP Engineering and firmware writer. It may be true that if you don't
try using the Notch filter in the area of a strong CW signal you may not
realize that it doesn't remove the carrier from the IF Bandpass and
therefore causes the AGC to pump. It may also be true that if you don't
seriously DX on SSB you may not notice that the Noise Reduction in the V2
firmware is much inferior to the V1 Noise reduction. If you don't run PSK31
you may not realize that the AUX output is very low in the latest firmware
and may, does with my computer, require an outboard preamp before the signal
is sent to the computer soundcard (See www.N6IE.com ) - and other issues
that you may not observe if you don't try to use the extended capabilities
of the Orion.
>
> I agree with Grant that there a still some things all of us (Most of us?)
would like to see improved. I just think that Ten-Tec has done nothing in
the last 6+ months to address any of these Orion/Orion II issues - and I
hope they will soon dedicate some resources to address them. I think
> Scott (Ten-Tec Sales) said:
> " At the moment, no anticipated delivery date
> for the high speed sweep board for the
> Omni-VII and Orion II. There is not going to be much of anything
> coming from us for Amateur Radio until
> the RX-400 is built and delivered -- which will happen in the first half
> of 2008."
>
> My hope is that does not mean no more Orion/Orion II V2 upgrades until the
second half of 2008. I think that would mean no effort in over a year and
could only be interpreted as very weak firmware support and no real
commitment to new capabilities. We will see.
> Merle - W0EWM
>
>
>
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