Toby,
I certainly agree with you that probably 75% of the problems encountered are
the result of users not reading and understanding the manual.
However Toby, when I paid the price for the Orion, I did not get a 25%
discount for the remainder of the problems that are mostly firmware related.
Paying the full price for a radio marketed to be a 'contest ready' radio,
one certainly should expect to get a 'contest ready' radio. I have had my
Orion for 18 months and while I maybe not being as technically astute as
some hams, this radio is close, but it's not 'there' yet. Fortunately after
18 months, firmware upgrades are getting better.
Tom - W4BQF
----- Original Message -----
From: "Toby Pennington" <toby423@earthlink.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] rcvr/no audio
> Skip, Call Paul at TT and tell him what is going on. He can guide you
> through some things you can try to get things straightened out.
> This is the logical thing to do since all of us posting to this reflector
> could only guess as to what to tell you to do. I would say that about 75
%
> of the problems encountered are the result of operator error or
> unfamiliarity with the radio. One person posting recently encountered a
> problem after operating only four hours and was so discouraged that he
> posted on e-ham and on this reflector with very negative posts, only to
find
> out later that he just needed to do a couple of updates and a master reset
> and the radio worked just fine.
>
> So save yourself some agony and call TT. Toby W4CAK
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "skip" <k3cc@fast.net>
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 7:13 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] rcvr/no audio
>
>
> > This is the first weekend I have had the time to play with my Orion.
> > After having the sweep on and listening to the Orion and FT 1000MP Mk/V
> > for
> > a few hours the Orion audio quit.
> >
> > I could see movement of the S meter and a hum from the audio but no
> > intelligibility.
> > I turned off the Orion and it worked fine for another 2 hours and the
same
> > thing happened.
> >
> > WHY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> > This is supposed to be a contest grade radio,. which means hours of use.
> > It's useless if it only works for a few hours.
> >
> > de Skip K3CC
> >
> > I'm trying to be constructive, however this radio has problems that
should
> > have been addressed before I got my hands on it.
> >
> >
> >
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