[TenTec] Orion

[Phil & Patti]

I have been following the much animated conversations on whether or not 
gold on black is cheesy, or whether black is better than grey, or whether 
Picasso's paintings look normal, or whether an antenna tuner is better than 
power windows, etc. ad nauseam. The bottom line is looks won't affect 
performance. It's what's inside that counts. If this rig performs anything 
close to the way it should with the features advertised, then the 
competition should be worried.
On the other hand, Ten Tec should be (and probably is) listening to the 
potential customers. Many of us like rigs that look and sound like top of 
the line stuff. We want to be able to show it off both on the air and in 
the shack. It goes back to the ancient "mine's better than yours" thing. 
(Go ahead, pretend you don't know what I'm talking about.)
The black/gold color scheme does not offend me in the least, however, I 
have some concerns about the "esthetics" of the LCD display. I am wondering 
if there is an issue (besides price) that makes the choice of a mono LCD 
display better that a color TFT display. IMO, I'd rather see a color 
display, unless there is a good reason not to have one. The internal 
antenna tuner would be nice, but it's not a "gotta have one or else" item 
to me.

Ok, that's my 2 cents...

73 de Phil - KI8JQ

  I don't know the secret of success, but the sure way to failure is to try 
to please everybody. - Bill Cosby


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