[TenTec] An example of changing Orion firmware to meet expectations of the operator.

[Ken & Linda Burrough]

Scott don't change the Orion Firmware.  If you must change the Firmware then please make it so I can default back to the present firmware set up.  

Ken/w8keb


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ten-Tec Inc. Amateur Radio Sales 
  To: tentec at contesting.com 
  Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 10:10 AM
  Subject: [TenTec] An example of changing Orion firmware to meet expectations of the operator.


  At 05:38 PM 7/7/04 -0400, you wrote:


  >It worked incorrectly from the beginning,
  >i.e. BW was transferred, but PBT wasn't,
  >making even the former useless.
  >
  >
  >73,
  >
  >Sinisa  YT1NT, VA3TTN

  No, that is not correct - it was by design.  We designed the two receivers, 
  and the
  two VFO's, to be completely independent entities on the Orion.  This is 
  also why there
  is no SPLIT button on the transceiver.   The A>B, B>A, and A/B buttons were
  orignially intended to transfer frequency information ONLY between VFO's.

  But.....

  See, when we created the Orion, we had the notion that because we were 
  making the
  receivers assignable to either VFO and that they were independent of the 
  same, that
  functions should be seperate for each receiver - because VFO's are not 
  receivers.
  BW and PBT are receiver functions, not VFO functions.   Each receiver is 
  independent
  of each VFO - therefore functions on one receiver should not transfer to 
  the opposite
  VFO when changes are made by the user.

  However....

  We were unsuccessful in explaining this Orion concept to the amateur community:

  -- VFO's are not receivers --

  ....and as a result have been slowly abandoning the original philosophy 
  behind the
  Orion's VFO/receiver independent design and modifying the firmware to meet the
  expectations of the users of the radio.  And that's what firmware updates 
  are for.

  Scott Robbins W4PA


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