[TenTec] Question for Contesters:

[Tony Martin W4FOA]

Bill,
Thanks for your reply.
Hopefully one day soon I will be able to place an order for the Orion.  The
tests and results you, ON4UN and W8JI have conducted and published are most
informative.  I sure hope Sinisa doesn't waste his money by buying one of
those "unfinished" Orions <grin>.
Tony, W4FOA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Tippett" <btippett at alum.mit.edu>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 8:40 AM
Subject: AW: [TenTec] Question for Contesters:


> YT1NT wrote:
>  >Reality is that FT-1000x was released with a number of problems
> two orders of magnitude smaller than Orion's.
>
>          Sinisa, I must respectfully and strongly disagree.  Yaesu
FT-1000X
> radios
> have been polluting our band with terrible key clicks for at least 15
years
> now and the company has yet to acknowledge any problems.  There have now
> been 4 generations (1000D, MP, Mk V, Field) which all share the same basic
> design flaw.  With the popularity of the 1000 series, I would say the
Yaesu
> 1000 family is BY FAR the #1 source of CW pollution today.
>
>          Orion was first shipped in late March of last year, and Ten-Tec
has
> diligently addressed most issues.  In fact, just this morning W8JI said
> the latest beta of 1.371 has NO clicks.  Contrast this to 15 years of
> stonewalling the same issue by Yaesu, and leaving it up to the owner to
> fix the 1000 clicks at his own expense.  There is simply no comparison.
>
>          Yes, Orion has had a few other issues, such as "digital" tuning,
> etc but
> they are nowhere near the same magnitude in terms of impact on other users
of
> our bands as the 1000 family.  I violated my own rule of never buying a
new
> radio in the first year of its life, but felt confident in doing so with
the
> firmware update capability.  So far I have not been disappointed.  In the
case
> of Yaesu, I would still be waiting after 15 years for a radio that should
> have never been released initially with its terrible clicks.
>
>                                                          73,  Bill W4ZV
>


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