[TenTec] re should i buy an orion now

[Grant Youngman]

> seem to have no problems at all.  It may be that the hardware 
> has been improving as time has passed and the ones having the 
> problems are from the earlier production runs.  Maybe some 
> updating is needed in the earlier versions to bring older 
> models up to date?

There have been a few minor updates.  My radio was shipped out of the first
production run in March 2003, and has been trouble free (firmware updates
aside)  I don't think updating is an issue.  And I can guarantee it isn't
just my good "luck" :-)

Grant/NQ5T