Thank you,
Dave
WA3MKB
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From: "Grant Youngman" <nq5t@tx.rr.com>
> > I think K3 will make TT software designers sweat a lot and If
> > they don't do something to improve the Orion soon,lots of
> > users will jump to the new K3,by the specs and features,if
> > its true what they say,it will beat the Orion.
>
> > Throw the v2 spaghetti code into the dumpster
> > where it belongs. With Elecraft's K3 on the horizon, time may be
> > running out on Orion customers' patience.
>
> In the main, that's ridiculous. I did spend some time with the K3
> yesterday. Kept going back to look and touch and feel some more. Hard to
> tell in a hamfest environment how the receiver works, but it's pretty easy
> to tell that my not too big and not too fat fingers would have a hard time
> finding a friend in the K3. I can tell you for sure, you don't want to use
> the internal squeaker -- ahhhh, speaker. I'd have the same problem with the
> big overbloated Yaesu, too, for having too many and too small controls on a
> grotesquely cluttered and unfriendly front panel -- those guys need to go on
> a diet.
>
> Some really ugly things have been happening with US radios -- and I limit it
> to US radios, because for the most part, we don't know who wrote what for
> the Yaesus or Icoms or Kenwoods. But we can oft times put names to who
> wrote what for the K's, the Flex's and the TT's. It's now become fine, if
> not downright fashionable, to berate or praise the individuals we hold
> responsible for whatever feature we don't like (and around which we scream
> "bug" since it doesn't suit our particular fancy) or whatever real bugs may
> exist. As though it is one person's fault, or some stupid manager's fault
> for not hiring the "right" person. If only "bob" could rewrite the whole
> radio from scratch ... Because obviously "bob" knows what he's doing. Right
> !? "Bob" may get hit by a truck. THEN who will write the radio? Will it
> be "old marvin" from down the street fiddling with open source code? Most
> software development companies I'm aware of make sure it doesn't matter
> whether "bob" lives or dies. And radio companies have indeed become
> software companies, with a not unexpected set of growing pains in the
> process.
>
> If you don't like a radio, you are free to get rid of it and buy something
> else. You also have to be willing to accept the fact that you're simply
> trading one set of issues (as you see them) for a different set (as you will
> undoubtedly see them). And the next thing will be complaints about "jim"
> and his verson of spaghetti code.
>
> My crappola quotient has simply been exceeded ... (or maybe since the FCC
> has been overturned I can actually say bullsh*t) :-)
>
> NNNN End of rant
>
> Grant/NQ5T
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