Good show.
I respect honesty, especially where one accepts responsibility for past
errors and where these errors caused others pain.
It was good to see your corrections & clarifications, as well.
Best regards,
Mark Rauchfuss
-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Reid
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 1:06 PM
To: tentec@contesting.com
Subject: [TenTec] My Mea Culpa re: Orlando Hamfest
Acknowledgement of my personal fault and error!
Yesterday, I sent a post containing the following:
> Have heard that the first impression was.... not
> very great. The demonstrators of the Orion ...
> couldn't get the menu to work and they had to reboot
> the rig several times. Was told the crowd watching
> began to heckle then started laughing....
Most of the above is NOT fact. I have now heard directly
from TT about the situation in Orlando. As follows, the
true facts:
Point 1.
"> A recent firmware update (that I temporarily forgot!) causes
> ORION to display the beginning screen containing version
> and date information for the radio when the operator holds
> the MENUS button in rather than pressing and releasing
> it. I discovered the error of my ways within the first half
> hour and everything went well after that.
> I honestly do not recall any laughing nor heckling during my
> bungled attempts to operate the radio, and I certainly do not
> know where you got your misleading impression. We
> explained that the radio firmware was still in development,
> and that not everything worked together at this point. Folks
> with experience in software development knew exactly what
> we were talking about and the others were polite.
Point 2
I had said there was no antenna connected. TT reply:
> Without a "decent high outside antenna, it is folly to demo
> a radio in the noise and local QRM at an indoor
> hamfest. We invite people to play with the knobs, but it
> is prudent to assure that when they key it up, the load will
> be proper and will add little to the local QRM. Add to that the
> fact that we are still swatting software bugs, and there is no
> cause for complaint about not being on an antenna. Most of
> the people we talked to left with a favorable impression about
> the product.
Point 3
> Your ill-informed comments on the reflector caused me much
> embarrassment at work this morning, though I am sure that was
> not your intention. We believe we largely succeeded in our goal
> of exposing the ORION to the crowd and it was gratifying to see
> the good reaction. They agreed with our philosophy that
> "we will sell no radio before its time".
I have sent a note of apology to the fellow I impacted so thoughtlessly
yesterday. I hope he accepts. And I am truly sorry for causing him
pain and discomfort! I will not give names nor call signs of the
sources of my miss-info I posted yesterday ( it was at least 2nd,
if not 3rd hand in retrospect), no point.
I will now be very careful about posts in the future.
73, Jim KH7M
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