[TenTec] orion problems

[Toby Pennington]

Tommy,   I agree with you completely (except for the work "silly") with this
post and commend you for your insight into the reality of what is happening
both with this excellent rig from Ten Tec, and also the slowness of getting
the software to 100%.  I understand though that 2.0 is looking good and hope
it will not be long until its release.

Perhaps a post from the engineering staff at TT as to the progress of 2.0
would be helpful.

Toby  W4CAK


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tommy" <aldermant at alltel.net>
To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] orion problems


> One can only speculate on this Al.
>
> In my opinion, I have no doubt that eventually TT will do the right thing
> and acquire assistance with the Orion's firmware. Again, in my opinion, it
> was a silly mistake for TT management to just add this formidable task
over
> to an employee who was already pretty well swamped with his task of duties
> as the VP of engineering. Of course I am sitting 'outside the box' and
have
> no clue as to how TT operates internally.
>
> I still believe the Orion has a significant design improvement, with, for
> one, the selectable roofing filters and customizable AGC capability, and
the
> mechanical design is just excellent. Unfortunately, that is not the whole
> package.
>
> Ten Tec has never, to my knowledge, given up on a product. The Orion, once
> they get the firmware working, will be a very top notch amateur radio,
still
> unsurpassed by the + $10K buck gear now on the market. I, personally,
still
> believe it has the potential to be the very best ham radio a serious ham
can
> own.
>
> The question may be, just how long are we willing to wait until it's
working
> correct? Of course all of the Monday-morning-quarter backing on this
> reflector will not help them. But what will help would be if more users
> would volunteer to be a firmware beta tester for when the new v2.0
firmware
> is released to the beta test group.
>
> Tommy
>
> W4BQF
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of W4ABW at aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 6:55 PM
> To: martin.ewing at gmail.com; tentec at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] orion problems
>
> Is it anticipated that in a few years the myriad of Orion problems may be
> resolved ?
>
> Al
> W4ABW
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