[TenTec] PRIVATE& CONFIDENTIAL Re: Orion vs SDR 1K

[John Nason / NA9U]

This reflector is a ruse.  It is intended to
demoralize Orion owners and injure Ten Tec's product
sales and reputation.  Evidence of this is post after
post of hate spew against TenTec and the Orion. This
done primarily by people that like to pretend they are
product managers. 

I admit being foolish enough to participate on this
reflector and am embarrassed for not seeing through
the subterfuge.  

I do not hate TenTec and I do not hate the Orion. I
apologize for participating on this reflector and will
never do so again.

John NA9U     

--- k6kdk at k6kdk.net wrote:

> PRIVATE& CONFIDENTIA
> >
> Gerald,
> 
>  I thought I would write you a quick note off line.
> I no longer post to the
> reflector, but I read it from time to time. I have
> sold my Orion and moved
> on. I now operate a Flex and other radios here in my
> shack.
> 
> I am prompted to write you this note because your
> statement above is wrong.
> You should retract it publicaly on the reflector. I
> may make one very plain
> vanilia public post against your statement above in
> public, I am not sure at
> this time, if I will do that , but I am thinking
> about it.
> 
> . The Flex project is managed as all professional
> software is managed. It
> has a core group of talent, and a team of coders,
> and an overall management.
> The revisions are tracked in SVN (if you do not know
> what SVN or CVS is then
> you know nothing about the subect matter).  Ther is
> no SVN revision tracking
> at TT, I know that for a fact from internal
> communications from Barbour.
> The software mangement at Flex is LIGHT YEARS a head
> of the long since lost
> tangle of code smidgets, re-writes, and general
> confusion at TT since Doug
> Smith left and a group of amateurs started writing
> code for the Orion I and
> OrionII.
> 
> Your statement above is EXACTLY BACKWARDS of the
> true situation. TenTec has
> no "close cordination" / Flex does.  TT has no DSP
> core talenet FELX DOES,
> Doug Smith is gone at TT,  McGweir is very much in
> place at the core of
> Flex. You should research the talent at Flex before
> you make any more public
> statements. McGweir is one of the top mathamatics
> experts in the field and
> has a day job for the Defense Analysis Dept.  Eric
> is a young,
> professionally trained, expert C programmer.
> 
> FYI, I know what I am talkng about here. I am now
> retired, but over the past
> 22 years, have been in professional software
> development for real time
> factory floor and automation machines used in
> everything from professional
> entertainemnt to machines that do precision parts
> placement.  I started my
> own company, later sold it, it was bought by a multi
> national, then was
> management head of one of their divisions for past 9
> years as part of the
> buy-out.  Retired 4 years agao, now I play Ham radio
> and raise Almonds
> trees!
> 
> Anyway, Gerald, I have the ability and background to
> look right through the
> end result of the TT code and see the problems. The
> project is horribly
> mismanged and lost. The exact opposite of "closely
> cordinated"  I can look
> at the Flex code, becasue it is open source, and I
> can tell you it is some
> of the best of it's type I have seen. It is written
> in conformance to modern
> accepted practice, and is very very professionally
> done. I would have been
> proud to have a team like that and code product like
> that in my previous
> job.
> 
> The bottom line here is that the Orion series is
> esentially at its "end of
> life" at this time. The best it was, or is ever
> going to be is v1.373b5..
> The whole thing now (for those that still have
> Orions, or those that are
> buying new ones..) is waiting for the "reality to
> sink in"..   It is a great
> radio, a great front end reciever, but it is what it
> is, there is no
> advanced "fixed" software comming in the next months
> or years.  It is fixed
> in time at v1.373b5, that is the reality.
> 
> Hope this information helps.
> 
> -Dan  K6KDK
> 
> 
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