[TenTec] Buying a New Orion

[Bill Tippett]

N8ME wrote:
 >It's unconceivable that purely software (firmware) upgrades will keep
the Orion up to date against such new technology.

         The funny thing is, Orion's outstanding front-end performance (as 
is true
for the K2) has absolutely NOTHING to do with computer technology.  It has to
do with superior analog design of the front-end that has been around for 
literally
decades.  The mistake some manufacturers have made has been to think that
128-bit CPU's at 50 GHz can overcome basic limitations in the analog front-end.
Sadly, some of them still believe that (but that's good news for Ten-Tec).

                                                 73,  Bill  W4ZV