[TenTec] new owner Orion

[Bob Henderson]

Fellas

I down loaded the manual from the Ten Tec web-site before I ordered my
Orion.  I enjoyed reading it.  I took delivery of an Orion in December and
have hardly felt the need to refer to the manual since.  I think that means
the Orion controls are quite intuitive.  I can dive into the menus and make
adjustments easily, because they are tagged in plain English.  Whenever I
needed to make a menu adjustment on any JA rig I've owned I always had to
hunt out the manual and scramble my way through it.

I guess Ten Tec could have made the manual prettier by binding it a little
better and could have included lots more pictures but I have to say that
wouldn't have impressed me much.  Once you get to good enough, any more is
waste.  I take a lot of comfort from the Ten Tec focus on continued product
improvement & good customer service despite the fact I'm a LONG way away
from Dolly Parton Parkway!

Let there be no doubt.....Orion is a world class radio.  That doesn't mean I
won't  criticise it but if you read my postings on this reflector you'll
know that already.  Constructive critcism is a good thing.

BTW I'm not a long term Ten Tec fan.  My first Ten Tec rig was an Omni VI+.
Lots of folks swear by the Omni VI+ but for a number of reasons I never
really got to like it.  I still have my VI+ here in the shack but hardly
ever use it.  The Orion is different.  I have two of them now and they have
completely replaced all the other radios I used in every aspect of my
activity.  They have managed to do that because they are the better than all
my other radios!

There are folks on here say Orion is great and there are folks say it sucks.
You'll only ever make up your own mind if you try it for yourself.

Try it....chances are it'll be the best radio purchase you've ever made.

73 Bob, 5B4AGN

This is scary....even I'm starting to sound like a member of the Ten Tec
cult :-))




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Notarius" <wn3vaw at verizon.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] new owner Orion


> Jim,
>
> I would agree with you that a good manual should be part and parcel with a
> succesful product.
>
> However... I guess I was a little too subtle with my comment.  Let me
> rephrase:  I've read quite a bit of kvetching on this here reflector from
a
> selected sampling of Orion owners (how big a sample I don't know).  So if
> the manual or manuals (shipped & on-line) are so terrible, why hasn't
> someone experienced with the radio come out with a better one, at least
from
> a "this is how you use it" standpoint?
>
> I'm asking this purely from a hypothetical standpoint.  I've had the
> pleasure, thanks to my friend W3WH, of using his Orion on quite a few
> occasions since he got it last year.  I have yet to even see, let alone
look
> at, the manual.  And while Bill has shown me a few things, mainly in how
to
> access menus to set code speed or filters, I found most of the operation
of
> the radio to be pretty intuitive.  Sure would love to have one!  (Of
course,
> I'd love to have a real shack of my own again first, but that's another
> story!)
>
> 73
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Brown" <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
> To: <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 9:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] new owner Orion
>
>
> > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 22:20:02 -0400, Ron Notarius wrote:
> >
> > >If the manual is so poor, why doesn't someone here on the list who is
> more
> > >familiar with the rig & features come out with their own?
> >
> > Huh?  A good manual is one of the most fundamental elements of a
> > successful product. A product is not finished (and should not be
shipped)
> until
> > a GOOD manual for it is part of the package.  FWIW, as much as I like
> > TenTec radios, I have never been thrilled with the manuals, and they
have
> > gotten worse, not better, over the years. I have not seen the Orion
> manual.
> >
> > It is not OUR job to produce a manual, it is TenTec's job. If their
manual
> is
> > lousy, hold THEIR  feet to the fire.
> >
> >
> > Jim Brown  K9YC
> >
> >
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