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

[Robert & Linda McGraw K4TAX]

Oh yes one can have both.  It just takes dollars.  I truly think that Tentec
designed a high end radio and in doing so had a target price of $3300.  To
add more features, color display and etc will cost more $$ and it might end
up at $4500.  That might be a wee bit much for the market at this time.

Lets see how the latest offering from ICOM does at some $5800.

FYI - My radio with a fancy color display won't hear the same signals out of
the 144 MHz or 432 MHz transverters that the Omni VI+ will hear and it has
only a numeric display.


73
Bob, K4TAX


----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Grotophorst" <n9dg at yahoo.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: Orion was ( [TenTec] Hercules III / Mark Erbaugh)


>
> --- Robert & Linda McGraw K4TAX <RMcGraw at Blomand.Net>
> wrote:
> > I see it this way.  Does one want a high performance
> > radio or a high
> > performance display?
>
> Why does this always need to be an "OR" proposition?
> Why can't we have both together? Reminds me of the
> crystal vs. DSP filtering debate, many see that as an
> "OR" question as well, but yet the Orion now does
> combine both extremely effectively, ... argument over.
>
> > In the end, I've never had a
> > display assist in pulling a
> > weak signal out of the noise .....
>
> On the contrary I use "fancy" displays to find signals
> on the 50-432MHz "weak signal" bands all the time (and
> am doing so on all 4 of those bands simultaneously),
> and I now find that radios without spectrum display
> capabilities to be down right clunky to use. But I'll
> generally agree with the sentiment about the
> usefulness of displays on the radios themselves. You
> simply cannot put enough information on a small 5 Inch
> or so display no matter how hard you try, you really
> do need a good sized external monitor or 2, or even 3.
>
> Duane
> N9DG
>
>
>
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