[TenTec] New Orions

[Steve N4LQ]

Its the shipping time from Taiwan causing the delays.

Steve Ellington
N4LQ at iglou.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Rasmussen" <wb8yqj at yahoo.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 6:21 PM
Subject: [TenTec] New Orions


> 
> 
> It seems there is no warehousing of new Orions, they
> are "made fresh" to order. 
> 
> Anyone have any idea how long the job takes?
> 
> I wonder if the boards building process is 100%
> automated, and how much individual attention each one
> requires. 
> 
> There may have been a fair amount of manual labor
> involved in wiring up an OMNI VI, at the least they
> needed to secure the boards to the chassis and plug in
> all those connectors.
> 
> I'd expect they would have engineered it to take less
> time with Orion. 
> 
> It could be that it takes longer to test them after
> they are hooked together than it does to assemble the
> parts.
> 
> Anyone privy to the operation in the skunkworks?
> 
> 
> 
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