[TenTec] KB7OEX: a big plus favoring ORION

[Simmons, Reid W]

I had one of the IC-211s.  Without a doubt the worst analog/digital
electrical design I have ever seen.  The manufacturing quality and component
selection was "less than poor", it was a nightmare to work on when it broke,
and the documentation was a joke.  Paid ~$750 for it new and finally sold it
for $100 a few years later. :-(

I think Icom was trying to usher in the era of "throw-away" radios.  :-)

My Omni VI/3 is just the opposite and it's been going strong now for 10
years with NO repairs needed.

Reid, K7YX


-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer
[mailto:geraldj@isunet.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 1:04 PM
To: cyr999@extremezone.com
Cc: tentec
Subject: Re: [TenTec] KB7OEX: a big plus favoring ORION


Icom has been doing that: bring out a new model with more features to
kill the used market price for at least 22 years since they couldn't
figure out how to fix the manufacturing problems in their IC-211 and so
came out with the 251 priced at the used market price for the IC-211.
That and the many HF radios that didn't have good receive AGC makes ICOM
a dirty four letter word in my hamshack.

73, Jerry, K0CQ
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