Announcing the O II does not mean that O I firmware development is
stopped. Possibly (hopefully) much of the "Version 2" software for
the original Orion, much waited for, will be in common with the
software / firmware of the O II.
It would be good to hear an official statement from TT on this.
Having orphaned products and alienated users is not in their interest,
seems to me.
73 Martin AA6E
On 7/20/05, marvin d. taylor <ae7h@frontiernet.net> wrote:
> I feel abandoned,
>
> with the anouncement of the new orion ii it seems ten tec is going to leave
> all of us stuck with the original orioin without the last fix on the
> software for the orion,. This is just as bad as what happened to all the
> guys and gals that bought the icom 756 , icom 756 pro0 the icom 756 pro ii
> the icom 756 proiii,
> this is not what I thought ten tec would do.
>
> I have had problems with the oriion that I have not communicated except with
> lten tec because I did not feel it was right to beat a dead horse especially
> and American dead horse untill I gave them the chance to fix some problems.
> It looks like they are taking the Icom reounte and letting all of us that
> bought the origional Orion stuck and wanting to switch horses in midstream.
>
> I just talked with Jack of Ten Tec a few days ago with another failure on
> the orion and he ded not mention the orion II to me, just some l;ip service.
>
> What about the next software fix for the Orioon before the shipments of the
> Orion II.
>
> Be carefull all who might be inclined to order another Ten Tec.
>
> 73 to all
>
> Don AE7h
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin, AA6E" <martin.ewing@gmail.com>
> To: "orion" <orion@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 9:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [Orion] Turns off with rapid VFO QSY
>
>
> > Jim,
> >
> > What do you mean "turned off"? Lost receiver audio? What firmware
> > version?
> >
> > I've never seen that problem, but I observe that lots of things slow
> > down when you spin the VFO rapidly. Maybe some eager engineer could
> > go in and measure the DragonBall's case temperature vs VFO activity.
> > Your problem and recovery sounds like overheating. (hi)
> >
> > Moral: if spinning the VFO knob causes trouble, don't spin the VFO knob...
> >
> > As everybody is saying, just wait for firmware version 2. (It will
> > come with a different set of bugs. :-)
> >
> > 73 Martin AA6E
> >
> > On 7/16/05, Jim McDonald <jim@n7us.net> wrote:
> >> My Orion just turned off and wouldn't come back on after I flipped the
> >> power switch off and back on after I was spinning the VFO quickly with
> >> the X10 tuning rate engaged (by pressing on the MAIN RX button). It did
> >> come back on with the power switch after a couple of minutes of being
> >> off. Has anyone else seen that?
> >>
> >> Jim N7US
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