[TenTec] TT (Orion) Future improvements!!!

[Steve Baron - KB3MM]

TT-516 ?!

ARGH!!  I have no idea what a 516 is.  Where do I run to look it up.

Always wondered why some TT uses insist on using model numbers.  Why does TT
waste time giving each rig a name ?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Notarius" <wn3vaw at verizon.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 03:18
Subject: Fw: [TenTec] TT (Orion) Future improvements!!!


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Maxwell Moon" <maxmoon at earthlink.net>
> To: <wn3vaw at verizon.net>
> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 10:00 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] TT (Orion) Future improvements!!!
>
>
> > Ron,
> > I'm taking the odd step of writing you because I'm not on the
tentec-list
> at present (only the TT-516 list) & because your's is the most recent post
> on the topic of Orion improvements. I have some thoughts on the subject &
by
> the time I get approved to post, this discussion will be nearly forgotten.
> So I'm writing you on the long-shot that you might choose to pass one
ormore
> of my comments to the rest of the list. And you needn't pass my name, for
> that matter.
> >
> > 1. The idea of freeing up CPU power by dropping the scope and/or the
> sub-RX is interesting. Is that something that could be done via a download
> from RFSQUARED? It would be misunderstood in some quarters--others might
> wonder about my sanity if I "REDUCE" my rig's capabilities--but from what
> I'm reading here, I suspect many owners would give serious thought to the
> option of increased performance from 'turning off' the band-scope or
sub-RX
> or both. If possible.
> >
> > 2. When discussing a color screen & the possibility that TT mis-read
> potential customers' desire I think we have to look back to the time of
the
> Orion's introduction. This list, for example, despite being populated by
TT
> fans & friends, did some venting over the 'deceptive' or 'misleading'
price.
> Remember people angrily posting comments like, It's not a $3300 rig, it's
> really at least $3600 if you count the filters, or even $4000 with the
ATU!!
> That's something I remember.
> >
> > My point is that in today's world, where you can easily spend more than
> twice the cost of an Orion (or 3 times its cost, very soon), the Orion is
> much more likely to appear if not a bargain, then very good in
bang-per-buck
> terms. But there would've been much, much more indignation & outrage if TT
> had introduced the Orion as a *true* $4500 or $4999 rig. (The "list price"
> or MSRP had broken $4000 before the Orion but not the street price.)
> >
> > 3. The Orion price-feature-market niche discussion has come up a good
> number of times. Would TT have been wiser to offer the Orion at $2999 but
> without a bandscope? Or $4999 with color scope and packed with filters?
> Interestingly, Yaesu is offering us a real-life experiment or laboratory.
> With their forthcoming and somewhat modular 9000's available in 3
> configurations, including no scope, lower power, etc., and color scope,
more
> power, etc., we will be able to infer some answers to these otherwise
purely
> speculative chats about the Orion.
> >
> > PS--I'm not in ANY way endorsing the Yaesu, or for that matter any IcKY
> rig, just saying that their marketing strategy offers us an object lesson.
> Or, if you prefer, a sort of Monday-morning-quarterback's tool for
assessing
> our friends in mgmt at TT.
> >
> > Thanks for your time,
> > &73 / 72,
> > Max, k0max
> > Argo V owner but saving for the TT Big O!
> >
>
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