One can only speculate on this Al.
In my opinion, I have no doubt that eventually TT will do the right thing
and acquire assistance with the Orion's firmware. Again, in my opinion, it
was a silly mistake for TT management to just add this formidable task over
to an employee who was already pretty well swamped with his task of duties
as the VP of engineering. Of course I am sitting 'outside the box' and have
no clue as to how TT operates internally.
I still believe the Orion has a significant design improvement, with, for
one, the selectable roofing filters and customizable AGC capability, and the
mechanical design is just excellent. Unfortunately, that is not the whole
package.
Ten Tec has never, to my knowledge, given up on a product. The Orion, once
they get the firmware working, will be a very top notch amateur radio, still
unsurpassed by the + $10K buck gear now on the market. I, personally, still
believe it has the potential to be the very best ham radio a serious ham can
own.
The question may be, just how long are we willing to wait until it's working
correct? Of course all of the Monday-morning-quarter backing on this
reflector will not help them. But what will help would be if more users
would volunteer to be a firmware beta tester for when the new v2.0 firmware
is released to the beta test group.
Tommy
W4BQF
-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
On Behalf Of W4ABW@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 6:55 PM
To: martin.ewing@gmail.com; tentec@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] orion problems
Is it anticipated that in a few years the myriad of Orion problems may be
resolved ?
Al
W4ABW
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