[TenTec] Will Orion be Ten-Tec's Last?

[holladayfd]

Ron,
This looks like an exercise in syllogistic logic.  i.e. Men of distinction
drink whiskey--I  drink  whiskey.  Therefore, I am a man of   distinction.

Frank  K4VMO

From: "Ron Notarius WN3VAW" <wn3vaw at fyi.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Will Orion be Ten-Tec's Last?


> Huh?
>
> Did I read this right?
>
> Is the point of this email that because:
>
> (a) Doug Smith has found other employment
> and
> (b) Ten-Tec at the moment has no new transceiver ready to roll onto the
> assembly line
> therefore
> (c) Ten-Tec is a goner?
>
> At the very, very least, there is insufficient data to logically lead to
> such a conclusion!
>
> C'mon, I'm sad that Doug is going too, but that's hardly reason to write
the
> whole company off, at least as fas as the amateur market is concerned!
>
> 73, ron wn3vaw
>
> "I'd give real money if he'd just shut up!"
> Dr. Leonard McCoy, "Start Trek VI:  The Hills Are Alive with the Sounds of
> Klingons"
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Rippey" <w3uls at 3n.net>
> To: <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:16 AM
> Subject: [TenTec] Will Orion be Ten-Tec's Last?
>
>
> When a company loses its brainiest employee (Doug Smith), it's time for
> black crepe, it seems to me, rather than sentiments such as he won't be
> missed because his work was done. One thing Smith's departure shows is how
> difficult it is to recruit and retain top-notch talent in locations such
as
> East Tennessee. Virginia Tech, located not far from Sevierville in
> Blacksburg, Virginia, has the same recruiting/retention problems for its
> engineering faculty. Appalachia is not Austin, Texas, or northern
Virginia,
> if you get my drift.
>
> As I recall, Scott Robbins said on this reflector some time ago that
> Ten-Tec had no plans for a Jupiter + (or Orion -). That leaves the
Argonaut
> V, which is the world's best 20-watt transceiver, the Jupiter, and the new

> Orion. Given that product line-up, seemingly set in concrete, and no
brainy
> innovators on board (don't forget Allan Kaplan is gone, too), and no new
> rigs in the pipeline, it is somewhat of  a gamble IMHO that sales of these
> three transceivers will be sufficient to keep T-T's ham business afloat
> indefinitely. Of course, T-T has other businesses and is not dependent on
> just the ham business.
>
> In the meantime, as has been noted, ICOM is marketing a new transceiver to
> hams for about ten grand, but this rig is designed primarily for the
> government/commercial market and will stand or fall on its reception
there,
> where sales run into the tens of thousands over many years. Ham sales will
> be gravy. The next new ham rig from ICOM likely will be a successor to the
> 756PRO II using some of the circuitry from the ten grand rig.
>
> 73,
>
> John, W3ULS
> Owner of OMNI VI, Argonaut V, IC-746PRO & FT-920
>
>
>
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