[TenTec] SDR

[Eric SENSI]

Sorry Dear Rick,

I did not offended anyone here, and everytime I received some advices it was
a pleasure to try this and that !

At least, I never ever criticize the job done by everyone here to help me to
find a solution and my dealer was effectively great during these 3 months
;-)

I'd like to set a thing, I'd like to say to the guys who are interested to
buy an Orion, that they have to try it in their environment, for me it was
not possible to run the Orion here and it will be the same for some people
too in the near future, so they really have to be careful... maybe the Orion
will be a great radio for them, maybe not !

I did not talk about the huge loss of money in 3 months... for that I could
own today a linear amplifier like the Ameritron AL-811H, but... there's no
linear here ! It is not the fault of anyone... it's like that, it's a fact !

I will always remember all the personal e-mails I received from all the
fellows hams here... everyone should receive a gift for christmas,
unfortunately, I can't, I did not have the Santa-Claus QRG in mind ! ;-)

See you soon maybe on the air, now that I'm back again with a poor radio
that works.

Eric.

-----Message d'origine-----
De : tentec-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]De la part de NJ0IP
Envoyé : jeudi 23 décembre 2004 22:29
À : eric.sensi at skynet.be; tentec at contesting.com
Objet : RE: [TenTec] SDR


Eric, you did indeed have some bad problems.

A lot of the people here went out of their way to try to help you.
Your dealer did a lot of back peddling to try to help you.
He even helped you get the new radio you now love so well.

I find it a bit curious that you would come back here after all of that and
effectively throw salt in the wounds of those who tried to help you.  Not a
very nice Christmas gesture, sir!

For my part, I was simply not impressed by this post.

Anyway, Merry Christmas and I hope next time you rejoin us, you will find at
least a few kind words.

73
Rick



-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Eric SENSI
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 10:50 AM
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: RE: [TenTec] SDR

Hello all...

Finally I am a happy man for 2 days ! :-) It was a hard decision to sell my
Orion, but had no choice !

So now, I owned :

- A JA radio with poor numbers
- A non-SDR radio
- A radio with no bugs on the screen because it's using some LCD segments
- An AF gain control know with no dead spots
- A microphone that's working without tweaking when you put it in the mic
plug :-)
- An RF gain control know that's working for years and years (not just since
the last update)
- A monitor circuit with plenty of punch into the headphones
- A radio with 200w output power with no RFI / ground loop problems
- A class-A mode when your shack is a little cold during winter ! :-)
- A radio with no distortions at all in the speaker even on strong signals
(over S9+30dB)
- A radio with no hiss on the headphones when the AF Gain is fully counter
clockwise
- A radio that can be tuned to my favourite BC AM stations under 500KHz (183
and 234KHz for instance)
  (183KHz is 59+10dB, 234KHz is 59+20dB = was inaudible on the Orion)
- A radio with a fast and silent ATU that works on the 2 ant connectors
- A radio that is not exclusively dedicated to weak CW signal DXing on the
low bands ;-)

I miss :

- The military look of the Orion
- The continuously variable DSP BW
- The programmable AGC
- The real independant second receiver

Eric, happy ham for Christmas, thank you Santa "Yaesu" Claus.

PS : I'm ready to get flamed, again :-)

-----Message d'origine-----
De : tentec-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]De la part de skip
Envoyé : jeudi 23 décembre 2004 18:15
À : tentec at contesting.com
Objet : [TenTec] SDR


The Orion is a good start if they ever make it work is another thing.  It's
a sad state of affairs when you can't get a mic to work.

I have a SDR  Flex-Radio  non of the Orion Problems and about $2000 cheaper
and I have source code.

My Orion for sale with the rest of the stuff  $3500

de Skip

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