[TenTec] Count your blessings?

[Bill Taylor(W4WBT)]

There will be no internal tuner in the unit. Possibly the External 
AT11 (which I use with my Jupiter) will be supported). As for 
changes, possibly only a different Display, (probably not color). 
What you see in the pictures and what I saw live at Charlotte is what 
will be sold. So why all this "free advise",most not constructive 
that is generating hundreds of messages a day. This radio should be 
the finest receiver/tranceiver available; when it is released.
It is sort of like all the discussion about the scout tranceiver. 
There is a 1 page discussion in the manual on the limitations that 
have been bashed about for the last week. Bottom line is that Ten-Tec 
sold more Scouts than ANY other radio in their product line. 
Something must have been good about it. At least you can communicate 
with the factory in English and not some other foreign language and I 
don't know any other manufacturer that has supported their product 
better.
I was looking at the Yaesu/Kenwood and Icom TOP OF Line radios at 
Hamfest and am amazed at all the "features" they have that are 
totally useless in making food HF contacts. I also heard a lot of 
discussion about a new "hot radio" from Icam that appears to have a 
lot of DOA problems. The biggest problem is getting them fixed. Never 
a problem with ten-Tec. So count you blessings and do something to 
help ham radio.
BT
W4WBT
(59 years old,semi retired but hope I am not a hard to get along with 
as some other "oldsters"

>OK on the tuner....go look at the great pictures that were provided and
>look for that little button that says TUNE on!   Yes, there is a tuner
>capability. 
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Arthur Bernstein" <n2ka@optonline.net>
>To: <tentec@contesting.com>
>Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 4:44 PM
>Subject: [TenTec] Tuner in Orion
>
>
>>  The Orion looks big enough to hold a tuner. Perhaps they'll have an
>>  option for an internal auto tuner (a la AT-11 type) similar to the
>>  option offered  for the Jupiter.
>>  Just a thought.
>>  Art, N2KA
>>
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