--- Adam Farson <farson@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> 4. As its transmitter and main receiver are
> restricted by design to
> amateur-band coverage only, the Orion is by
> definition locked out of these
> potentially highly lucrative markets which, as you
> intimated, will more than
> pick up the slack once amateur demand begins to
> taper off. This is
> regrettable.
Or I suppose a smaller and more nimble (and lower
overhead) company like TT can just build a different
model using the knowledge they've gained designing the
Orion (and DSP radios before it) in a radio that is
OPTIMIZED for the government/commercial/military
markets, - just like the Orion is OPTIMIZED for the
Amateur market.
I really don't understand all this mystique and
intrigue about using the same radios that the
gov/com/mil users do on the amateur bands. Especially
when you consider that the things we do as hams are
quite different in most cases than the mil/gov users
do. In many ways our technical requirements for
performance are tougher.
Also it seems that all of those Collins, R&S, Harris
etc. types of gov/com/mil market targeted radios are
clunky and awkward at best to use in a typical hamming
style of environment. Also the notion of using amateur
"styled" gear in something like an embassy or
consulate environment seems like a bad idea to me as
well. How many of the staffers in those kinds of
facilities would actually care that the radio they are
using has all those fancy controls, they would more
likely be completely blown away by all of the
complexity of a 7800 or even an Orion.
When trying to cover too many markets with with a
single model of a radio you run the very real risk of
producing something that is the "jack of all trades
and the master of none".
Duane
N9DG
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