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

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Robert Higgins wrote:

>Sorry, I guess I'm just hopelessly dense, but this follow-up post did
>nothing to help me understand the first post. Perhaps if you explain it to
>me like I'm a six year old.
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>73
>Bob K4LW
>John Rippey wrote:
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Well first, you have to consider that I might not be taking any of this 
stuff seriously.
Then read what

John Rippey wrote:

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>> 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.
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"brainiest employee" makes me think how the hell does he know this? did 
he weigh their brains?
Well that's not very nice to say and at almost the same instant I had 
this mental image, described below.
Makes the point in a humorous way.

"Appalachia is not Austin".  Yes, I got his drift. I like S.E. TN and 
Blacksburg and said so.

The question about the RX320 was to drive home the first point about the 
"brainiest employee".
IMO, it's just as difficult, maybe more so, to design something as nice 
as the RX320 is in terms
of price/performance and sheer elegence. It's a VERY nice design.

I'm not gonna buy an Orion. Would rather spend it building stuff.

73,
-Bob

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> Imagining a bucket hanging from a fishermans scale. Each TT employee 
> plops his gob of gray (gravy) in the bucket while a green visored 
> clerk sporting armbands, and an acetate collar on a striped shirt, 
> dutifully records the reading on greensheets on an old metal 
> clipboard. Personally I'd rather live in East TN.
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> Who designed the RX320. IMO, it's a very elegant design and quite a 
> radio for the $.
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> -bob