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

[Ken & Linda Burrough]

CW ragchewing like on 40 meters today, the PA QSO Party.

Ken/w8keb

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj at hotmail.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 4:47 PM
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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