[TenTec] re should i buy an orion now

[Grant Youngman]

> > company and the Orion has the potential of being a fine rig 
> worth its
> asking price. I
> > just don't think people are happy in spending ~$4000 on a SDR whose
> firmware is still
> > very much beta quality and a work in progress. I'm curious what's
> happening to TTs reputation
> > in all of this? Surely it can't be good. Indeed, one has to 
> wonder how
> many people bear with
> > TT and their Orion in the hopes that TT will fix the 
> problems and that the
> Orion will get
> > better because they don't want to admit that they spent 
> their hard earned
> $$$ on a subpar,
> > even flaky radio?

You, like many people, pay nost of your attention to the loud mouths and
idiots.  Those with an axe of some sort to grind, regardless of whether it's
based on fact or not, always shout the loudest.

We have a lot of those around here, many of whom hang here with the express
purpose of just being a pain in the arse.  We'd all be better off if they'd
just go kick the dog and get it out of ther system.  Instead, there must be
some perverse thrill in beating the horse.  It's a contest I suppose.

I agree with the suggestion that we form a sublist of badmouths and the
unhappy, publish it, and let anyone who wishes go there and get all the
negative input they can stand.  Then perhaps the rest of us (most of us, I
think would be the correct term) can continue to enjoy the radio in peace
and quiet.

Grant/NQ5T