[CCF] FW: [CQ-Contest] TenTec Orion questions regarding SO2R suitability

[jukka.klemola at nokia.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Eric Scace K3NA [mailto:eric at k3na.org]
> Sent: 09 May, 2003 04:47
> To: Bill Coleman; Bill Tippett; cq-contest at contesting.com; 
> eric at k3na.org
> Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] TenTec Orion questions regarding SO2R
> suitability
> 
> 
>    I would pay significantly more (but rather less than 2x) 
> for a variant of the Orion with two identical receivers of "main"
> quality, where the only receiver that gets muted during 
> transmit is the one that either (a) is using the same antenna as the
> transmitter or (b) the user chooses to mute.
> 
>    If one can get a "SO2R in a box", one eliminates the need 
> for a second radio box on the desk.  Eliminating the second radio box
> on the desk in a contest also eliminates a 25A 13vdc power 
> supply and the associated antenna switching hardware -- both 
> of which are
> non-trivial work or expense.
> 
>    The only thing given up with a SO2R-in-a-box is 
> redundancy.  If the transmitter quits, the contest is over.
> 
>    Some responses have pointed out that contesters are a 
> minority of hams, and SO2R contesters a minority within this 
> minority.  But
> I suspect that contesters buy a very disproportionately large 
> percent of the high-end radios... and SO2R contesters even more so.
> 
>    So I'm with Bill AA4LR: there is an unserved market demand.
> 
> 73,
>    -- Eric K3NA
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Coleman [mailto:aa4lr at arrl.net]
> Sent: 2003 May 8 Thursday 18:49
> To: Bill Tippett; cq-contest at contesting.com; eric at k3na.org
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] TenTec Orion questions regarding SO2R
> suitability
> 
> 
> On 5/8/03 12:46 PM, Bill Tippett at btippett at alum.mit.edu wrote:
> 
> > >POTENTIAL PROBLEM #1:
> > >
> > >Can an Orion user clarify if any receiver continues to 
> operate while
> >transmitting?
> >
> >         Orion is not SO2R in a box...neither is any other 
> radio.  Yes,
> >both receivers are muted while transmitting.
> 
> You know, this is a problem.
> 
> Ever since the FT-1000D, these radios that pack two receivers and one
> transmitter into the same box have 99% of the circuitry 
> needed to do SO2R
> with one radio.
> 
> You'd think that the Orion, designed with input from Scott, might have
> leaped this hurdle. But it sounds like they didn't even try!
> 
> When the Orion was first rumoured on the Ten-Tec site, I sent 
> an e-mail
> to Ten-Tec asking this very question -- can you receive while
> transmitting. I never received an answer.
> 
> Whoever is the first manufacturer to pack two quality 
> receivers and one
> transmitter into a single box will sell a ton of them.
> 
> 
> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
> Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
>             -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
> 
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