[TenTec] Orion SSB on air challenge...

[Grant Youngman]

> keep up with demand, he has only heard a few on the air, and most of
> the people he has heard, have had reservations about it and have
> returned it for a refund. 

Perhaps the guys sending them back are just the most vocal.  That seems to be the 
case, anyway.   I've heard several on the air, including a recording of mine.  Typically the 
one or two I've heard that didn't sound up to snuff were put on the air buy new owners 
who plugged in the mic and started to talk.  If you do that with, for example, a Studio One 
mic without adjusting transmit EQ or without reading the manual, it WILL sound like crap. 
But that isn't the fault of the Orion -- any rig can be made to sound bad.

> 
>    He also read K6SE's scathing review from E-ham on the air when K6SE

Then he also needs to read ON4UN's review, which has some not-so-oblique comments 
specifically on that.  Supports what most of us said at the time.  Naturally the rest of us, 
the run of the mill,  were dismissed as one or more of (1) members of the "cult", (2) 
flamers, (3) castigators of the righteous.  Maybe Devoldere won't be ....  

> run a Mic,  Show them what your orion sounds like & let him know what
> you thnk. 

Perhaps we ought to all bombard them at once :-)

Grant/NQ5T