[TenTec] Orion SSB Challenge: why no Orions heard?

[Ron Martin]

One certainly can tell that the bands aren't up to snuff based on this
reflector.

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Rob Atkinson, K5UJ
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 16:47
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: [TenTec] Orion SSB Challenge: why no Orions heard?


Maybe they were all bought up by contesters so you never hear them because
they are intended to be rigs for competitive operating.  To put it another
way, if 95% of my operating were just hanging out with the guys on the phone
ragchew bands (these days 20 - 160) which BTW is 95% of my operating, I'd be
running a ragchew rig, something $1.5K less.  So, since casual ragchewing is
where hams talk about their rigs and listeners find out what they are
running and the Orion isn't a rig for that, you don't hear about them.  They
may be on the air, but in pileups and guys saying CQ contest over and over
again.  Just out of curiousity, for everyone who owns an Orion but isn't
into dx paper chasing and contesting, but mostly ragchews, why did you
purchase such a high end rig?

Rob Atkinson
K5UJ
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