[CCF] FW: [CQ-Contest] SO2R Orion - 4 bands at once? 4 amps? Hoy!

jukka.klemola at nokia.com jukka.klemola at nokia.com
Fri May 9 16:22:41 EDT 2003


TenTec mainostaa siten että vastuuta on jätetty lukijalle.
Olkaapa tarkkoina sitten tekin.
73
jukka

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext George Fremin III [mailto:geoiii at kkn.net]
> Sent: 09 May, 2003 15:23
> To: Dick Green
> Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com; 'Scott R.'
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] SO2R Orion - 4 bands at once? 4 amps? Hoy!
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 01:03:20AM -0400, Dick Green wrote:
> > Scott,
> > 
> > I think the ORION is a remarkable achievement, and 
> completely understand
> > Ten-Tec's decision not to build a very expensive radio for 
> the exceedingly
> > small number of SO2R ops in the market. However, I find the 
> following
> > verbatim quote from Ten-Tec's website *very* misleading:
> 
> I agree.
> 
> > 
> > I suppose I was naïve and did not really stop to consider 
> the cost of
> > actually building SO2R into one box, but after reading the 
> above paragraph I
> > definitely assumed that this was a major feature of the 
> ORION. Obviously,
> > I'm not the only person who thought so. I even went so far 
> as to inquire of
> 
> 
> I thought so too.... in fact AC5AA and I had a long email 
> exchange about
> using a single Orion as opposed to two other radios because we 
> both read the TenTec discription to be SO2R in a single box.
> 
> 
> -- 
> George Fremin III - K5TR
> geoiii at kkn.net
> http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr
> 
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