[TenTec] Orion SSB on air challenge...

[Jeffrey Griffin]

 Hey , I've had my Orion for about 6 months. I'm on travel for work about
1/2 the time. So I'm not totally up to speed with it as some of you guy's
are, as I also am an extremely active satellite operator, that takes alot of
my time. But on HF I've never gotten so many unsolicited while working DX
'your audio is excellent' audio/sig reports as I do with my Orion, with a
properly setup Studio One.  My last HF rigs weren't exactly slouches,
included are a  1000D, and a 756 PRO. I still have the PRO.  I like the
receive so much on the Orion that the PRO is used for 6m, and data modes
only. I  turn the PRO on while home , mostly for maintenance only. The Orion
is that much better. It doesn't matter to me what anyone sez.
 As we say in the computer business, Art can byte my baud....

73 Jeff kb2m


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grant Youngman" <nq5t at comcast.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion SSB on air challenge...


> > 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
>
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