Orion was ( [TenTec] Hercules III / Mark Erbaugh)

[Steve Baron - KB3MM]

It is interesting that display color has been highlighted but I have seen no
mention of other cosmetic aspects of the display.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cliff" <csegar at mindspring.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 13:33
Subject: Re: Orion was ( [TenTec] Hercules III / Mark Erbaugh)


> At 08:03 AM 10/7/2003 -0500, wd4air wrote:
> >>From: KD7EFQ at aol.com
> >I'd also like to see a
> >>color display on the Orion ...
> >
> >A "feature," I don't know if I would be so generous.
>
> I recall my father stating that fishing lures are designed to catch
> fishermen and not fish. I suspect that a color display would be designed
to
> catch hams and not ham signals. Personally, I am glad that the folks in
> eastern Tennessee spent the R&D on catching the weak signals while
throwing
> out the 'tuner upper' 5KHz away. Maybe a color display with a band scope
> and fancy color bars could let you know that the rest of the hardware and
> software did its job but 90+% of us don't really care. We just wanted the
> best Rx possible that doesn't have useful and needed itens burried 4 menu
> levels down in some cryptic soft keys. No I can't afford the Icom 765 Pro
> IIIc MPx Mark7 or whatever the latest rice version is now and I can't
> afford the Orion with whatever the lasest *FREE* software revision might
be
> either. But the market that TenTec plays to are the serious amateurs that
> care to have the very best equipment that their money can buy. Yes, for
the
> same money as the Argo V you can get a Yahoo FT-100 that plays DC to
> DayLight with 100w but it sure doesn't have the performance of the TenTec.
> Oh - and when the FT-100 had that nasty glitch in the first runs you
> *bought* the second version at full price. The Argo V owners just did the
> FREE upgrade and had it without driving anywhere.
> If there's enough demand for the color display I'm sure that Carl
Moreschi,
> N4PY, can sell you the software to run on your PC to look really cool! ;-)
>
> 73 de KD4GT
>
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