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

[George Fremin III]

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.


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George Fremin III - K5TR
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