[TenTec] What's going on with the O2?

[John R]

My two cents:

1. I've heard that the scope/display in the new FT-9000DX is nothing  
to write home about. The IC-7800 supposedly has a greatly superior  
visual display. I guess the Orion II will be competing head-on with  
the forthcoming FT-2000. I see the PROIII as being more attractive to  
users on the phone bands rather than as a CW rig.

2.  Anyone buying a FlexRadio has my admiration/sympathy. Some of us  
are not so in love with PCs that we still don't want old-fashioned  
functionality--like a large cabinet and a front panel with room for  
knobs, meters, etc. For example, the OMNI VI seems to me to have an  
ideal set of controls right at hand. The Orion looks as if it  
inherited this kind of engineering.

If that means selecting a legacy rig with considerable limitations in  
its firmware updating capability, I can live with that handicap.

73,
John, W3ULS