[TenTec] E-ham Bad Orion Review

[Ken Brown]

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> It shouldn't have to be a choice between performance and reliability in the 
>price ranges of today's radios. You should get BOTH, "Right out of the box".  
>I'll go back to observing threads now. 73.  Todd
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This is essentially what I have said, and people have said I am 
ultra-conservative and should be happy with a Drake 2B and a DX-35 if I 
insist on reliability. I am in favor of advancing the art. I want a 
radio with Orion's receive performance, that does not have the feel and 
smell of a glitchy PC.

Sometimes when products are released before the technology is mature 
enough, they dissappear for a while, only to return later. Remember 
Quadrophonic Sound in the early 70s. It dissappeared. Now everybody has 
a surround sound home theater system.

I don't want Ten-Tec, or the Orion to dissappear. With the firmware 
download capability maybe they will get it to be reliable. For now I'm 
happy to wait it out and enjoy my Omni VI.

DE N6KB