[TenTec] Pegasus back to the question

["Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj@hotmail.com>]

> To TT marketing read - this:
> Now only if somebody  would put Orion caliber
> performance in a no panel box like the Peg is with
> Ethernet interfacing. Then with some creative software
> such radio could take the contester and DX'er crowd by
> storm.
>
> Duane
> N9DG

I hate to say it, because I wish it weren't true in a way, but when Jupiter 
came out, Peg sales dropped noticably.   A majority of hams seemed to prefer 
front panel rigs.  Like you, I wish an alternative continues to be out there 
because it may appeal to the under (arbitrary number here) 35 set.  
Apparently most currently licensed hams like me (on HF anyway), are old dogs 
for whom a plain box next to a monitor is not the ham radio experience we 
know and love.  I've tried the box--personally I need real knobs and meters; 
not a GUI.

But, if radios become totally software driven and modular you may someday 
order your rig the way you order a pc from Dell on the Web:  One radio for 
which each customer chooses from a wide variety of options with prices to 
match, resulting in the sale of anything ranging from an Argonaut to an 
Orion with or without a front panel.

Rob Atkinson
K5UJ

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