[TenTec] Orion Comment ( too long) [More too long]

[Robert & Linda McGraw K4TAX]

I kinda like Duane's approach..........err to a certain extent.

  I want a radio that has the features that I need and performs the way I
need it to perform.  That's the way I make a decision on anything I buy, be
it a $499 radio (recent used Paragon), a $3500 radio or a $45,000
automobile.  Regarding radios, I never gave 2nd thoughts to the color or the
layout 'cause the fellow on the other end couldn't see it.  Only hear it and
I wanted to be able to hear him.  That's important.  Now if he should visit
you shack then perhaps "cosmetics" becomes important.

If we are all so concerned about having no front panel, no knobs, a great
color screen  and etc etc, that's what is in front of me now.  Then why not
QSY to a "ham radio" chat room on the internet?  If you don't like the QSO
there, then grab the mouse, point to a different place and QSY.  Even
monitor 2 chat rooms at once.  Folks, what you are asking for, everything,
is here........but not in ham radio circles.

Folks,   all of the banter is going nowhere.  Get real.

Tentec builds GREAT radios.  They have in the past and will in the future.
If you don't want a GREAT radio or can't afford a GREAT radio then go buy
something else and be satisfied with 2nd or 3rd or 4th best.  As one recent
writer so aptly put it "if you can't run with the big dogs then stay under
the porch".  wolf wolf - yip yip yip

Me, in my mind, I'll buy a GREAT radio.  It most likely will be Tentec, but
if I so decide, it might be something else.  Not likely however.  Oh yea,
I'll most likely keep my OMNI VI+ with all of it's "tummy full" of Tentec
filters.  Yep, this is the one that has no birdies on 10M too. :)  And yes,
my pair of 3-500Z's drive just fine to legal output with less than 100 watts
of drive. :)  Uh, that's a stock Tentec product too. :)  :)

P & M     P & M     P & M   etc  :(    :(

73
Bob K4TAX (with the flame suit on)   Let 'em rip

----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Grotophorst" <n9dg@yahoo.com>
To: "George W5YR" <w5yr@att.net>; "Bill Steffey" <ny9h@arrl.net>
Cc: <Tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion Comment ( too long)


> Caution: Contains humor.
>
> It seems that so much of the recent discussion has
> focused on the looks of the Orion vs. what's actually
> in it or how well it will interface to the new
> technology world. FWIW I want to listen and transmit
> on my radio, not look at it or fondle it. So I'll take
> this opportunity to get on my no front panel black
> radio soapbox .... again :-).
>
> Far as I'm concerned I would like to see a simple no
> panel/knobs box that I will tuck away in the corner of
> the shack and never look at. In that case it could be
> bright green with purple polka dots for all I care,
> cause I ain't a gonna be looking at the radio anyhow,
> I'll instead be looking at all those nice large multi
> color waterfall displays on one of my two 21 inch
> monitors (no tiny 5 or so inch displays for me, color
> or not!). I will then have my digital mode of choice
> or audio analysis / post processing program running on
> the other monitor, drawing fun and imaginative filter
> passband shapes just to make the people I'm listening
> to sound funny, because I want to.
>
> Also I'll be zipping around the bands by clicking on
> interesting looking spectrum spikes here there and
> everywhere, never even once having to let go of the
> mouse in order to take a quick look at the latest
> flame war on the Ten Tec reflector.
>
> Maybe another time I will have a simple virtual radio
> panel with florescent orange knobs till I'm tired of
> orange, I may then make them each individually into
> any one of the 32 million other colors that I'll have
> to choose from! I'll resize and move those various
> virtual buttons and knobs about my screen in so many
> "creative" ways that'll make Picasso's work look
> normal.  Of course I'll be able to do all of that,
> because it will be just software. As it is now once
> the Orion would land on my desk the knobs and buttons
> will always look the same until I buy the Orion VI+.
>
> Duane
> N9DG
>
>
>
>
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