[TenTec] My new ORION

[Joseph A. & Ruth O. Ryan]

I don't think comparing an Orion at $3,300 or so with an ICOM 7800 at, 
what, $11,000.00 is
worthwhile.  To me it's like comparing a Ford or Chevrolet to a Rolls 
Royce...but then.....whatever
rings your chime...I personally appreciate my Orion above all others....It 
replaced a Kenwood TS950SD.
73's
Joe, KX4JR

At 07:26 PM 05/23/2005, you wrote:
>Grant,
>1.I'm talking about narrow dynamic range as well.
>Right now Orion will not handle week signal at 1kHz or 5kHz spacing from 
>the strong signal S9 +35dB. This is the fact.
>Everything is distorted-period.I'm not talking about specification. This 
>is real life test with 1.372 firmware.
>IC7800 will handle week signal under the same condition.
>I know -I did it.
>2. Orion will handle week signals close to strong one
>perhaps even better than IC7800 but only with different firmware. I will 
>not go back to 1.371 I will take  new one 2.0.
>3. I don't care about your radio I care about majority of Orion's with 
>1.372. This is known problem and Bill has described it very well.
>4. Everybody would prefer to turn the function ON or OFF
>with one PUSH of the botton-this is normal way.
>You should not need to push "AN" first to get black backround on it and 
>than push it again to turn it "ON".
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>Also, tell me how many times do you have to turn the knob
>in order to lower  the AGC treshold from 10uV to 0.37uV- is it about 200 
>times? This needs to be corrected as well.
>Anybody else has this problem???
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>I like my radio but it has problems.Even Ten Tec will tell you that.
>Also,I'm sure that Ten Tec will improve ORION.
>But they need good feedback.
>If everything is so good like you are trying to tell everybody, than why 
>good number of ORION's was returned to Ten Tec for refund. We need to help 
>Ten Tec to stop this
>trend. We will not do good job if we close our eyes and pretend that 
>everything is great.
>Ten Tec and Elecraft are the only two Co. that understand
>how to design good RX. So, Ten Tec just needs to finish
>this great radio.
>Mark WQ7X
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