[TenTec] Screen impact

[Ten-Tec Inc. Amateur Radio Sales]

At 11:34 PM 6/10/04 -0600, W6LX wrote:

>Wow. This is very, very interesting. Does anybody remember the uproar
>surrounding the Orion's price when it was first announced? Thirty-three
>hundred dollars, and everybody practically fainted. Just go back and
>read the threads and feel the anxiety: How could they charge that much?
>How can the little guy afford it? Does it really do that much more?

And on the "Ten-Tec listens to customers" theme, I can assure you that
the commentary about how $3300 was very high for an HF transceiver
back in 2002 definitely had an impact on our decision to not put a color
screen in the Orion.   That was the whole point of bringing out the Orion
at the 2002 Charlotte Hamfest - so we could get direct feedback on
what we were doing.  Same motivation for Icom and Yaesu showing the
IC7800 and FTDX9000 well in advance of availability.

In 2002, I thought $3300 was a lot of money for an HF transceiver -
even one as good as the Orion is.  I still think so today.

Scott Robbins W4PA


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