[TenTec] Orion -- and screaming

[Tommy]

Subject: [TenTec] Orion -- and screaming


>
> Many of us also have pretty long resumes, and have owned a lot of
> radios.  No one that I can see is calling anyone else a dummy, so
> I'm not sure what any of that accomplishes.

If you read post about folks who are having problems, there are numerous
suggestions that the poster may  not have the experience necessary to
understand the problem. There  were more than one response/comment to my
posting about the problems with v1.371 that insinuated I may not fully
understand. While I may not be as technically astute as some others claim
they are, I am pointing out that I am not a novice to the ham  ranks.
>
> If one reports  problem with a new firmware release and no one else
> (or very few) have the problem, the logical conclusion is that there is
> some other variable at work.  So a bunch of folks make good faith
> suggestions about what might play into the situation, and instead of
> a thank you or even two seconds worth of consideration they get
> beaned for being too stupid to know what the REAL problem is ..

If you go back and look at my very last post about the  v1.371 problem, you
will see that I sent  one special post to the reflector specifically
thanking everyone for their comments and suggestions. And yes, that included
the folks who told me to tear out my lightning grounding system and the
folks who told me how  to build a veritcal antenna...in response to my
initial post about v1.371.

Am I the '--and screaming' one you  are talking about? I hope so. But at
least I am doing my screaming, as you call it, here on the Ten Tec reflector
where it should be discussed...and not on eHam or anywhere else, for
everyone to read.  It was MY 3500 buck I put out over a year ago to buy a
Ten Tec Orion, a year's worth of patience really should be sufficient. If
the Orion was produced by ANY company other than Ten Tec, it would have been
out the door a long time ago.

Tom - W4BQF