[TenTec] Tentec Orion / Yaesu Mark V FT-1000MP

[Martin AA6E]

Eric,

Your story is very interesting!

I am another Orion user who has mixed feelings about a
rig that has a little too much "personality", despite
some excellent specs.  Fortunately for me, the Orion
does what I need it to do so far, and the frustrating
stuff is secondary.

Good luck with the Yaesu.  Me, I have thought about
trading "up" (or is it "sideways"?) to an Icom
756proIII, but I don't know if I am willing to rebuild
my station and software around a new rig.  Some people
just want to be hams, and others enjoy tracking down
RFI and firmware bugs.  I am somewhere in the middle.

All 73s for the holidays.

Martin
AA6E
--- Eric SENSI <eric.sensi at skynet.be> wrote:

> Here comes the boring man, again... :-)
> 
> No, chill out, this time I will not shoot anyone.
> 
> Just an info I'd like to share and nothing else. No
> conclusions should be
> made after this.
> 
> As I can't keep my second Tentec Orion from being
> stressed with some RFI
> and/or ground loops problems; after having spent
> nearly all my time trying
> to solve this and that during 3 months I finally
> took the hard decision to
> get rid of my Orion.
> 
> Well, IT IS a sad decision I know, but if I can't
> make it work in my own
> shack / radio environment, the easiest thing to do
> is to get rid of the
> radio ! I can't get rid of my house and I can't
> afford a "Texas ranch" kind
> of house with some towers 100ft away from the shack.
> 
> So, the Orion has been sold last week.
> 
> I have just received a new YAESU Mark V FT-1000MP
> [Arrrgh ! no, not that
> ugly JA radio] which is an old friend to me as I
> owned the whole familly
> (FT-990, FT-1000, FT-1000MP) just before buying my
> first Orion in August
> 2004.
> 
> Of course, and I'm not really surprized, I've just
> make some contacts during
> 1 hour, running the rig at 200w, with absolutely no
> RFI problems at all,
> with a high quality audio reported by 2 stations
> (and a new country too this
> evening on 40m).
> 
> The radio was not yet connected to the ground,
> during transmit, nor the
> computer speakers or telephone were stressed by some
> RF leakage or whatever.
> 
> I know my message is without any interest, but it
> tells me one thing : Try
> before you buy !
> 
> All the best and I'm happy to be back again on the
> air, with key clicks and
> poor numbers, okay, but on the air ! ;-)
> 
> Eric, ON6CV.
> 
> 
> 
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