[TenTec] Being a Contrarian...."

[Tommy]

I personally don't think your "useless contribution" is useless.

Maybe some of the 'Monday morning quarterbacks' inputs on 'this is 
the way TT should do it' is useless however. Regardless of who or 
what 'team' designed the Orion, in my opinion, they certainly did a 
top-notch job with the electronics design and the mechanical design. 
As has been already mentioned, no one is capable of putting every 
knob in the 'correct' place that everybody thinks it should be.

I wasn't aware that there was mythology present that eluded to the 
fact that the Orion died when D. Smith departed TT. I do think it was 
quite unrealistic to turn around and dump the firmware problems, in 
total, on the director of engineering. Having been one myself, I am 
sure Mr. Barber has many less hairs now than he had three years ago. 
I think it's a great credit to Gary's intestinal fortitude that he 
stuck it out and gave it his best shot. Yes, I've heard that all TT 
employees wear 'many hats', but my gosh, what a load to dump on one 
guy! The results have been obvious. If any 'finger-pointing' had to 
be done, it had to be pointed, not at any TT employees, but right to 
the top. Offers of assistance with the firmware was made by 'several' 
retired and well respected software engineers/managers, which were rejected.

Having said the above, I have to clarify that it was said out of 
intuition, as I have no clue to the 'inside working details' of how 
TT is managed.

Most all of the Orion threads are absurd. The most ridiculous post 
are the one's such as "My buddy's Orion works flawless, so the rest 
of you guys must be nerds" , but at least it provides some touch of humor?

Tom - W4BQF


At Tuesday 10:18 PM 8/1/2006, you wrote:
> > Doug Smith's leaving TT was NOT an 'urban myth'!
>
>
>But the notion that the Orion somehow died with him is.  Positively.
>Absurd.  Of course he left.  Last I heard he isn't the last living guy that
>knows stuff.  That he had the mojo and the rest is history -- that's the
>mythololgy, which has now become dogma.  If Gary B did do the Orion II
>single handedly (maybe that's just another piece of mythology), how many of
>the whiners (and I've been one, too, at times) could even come close?
>
>Come to think of it, this whole series of threads is absurd.
>
>I don't understand why all the guys who think that they could do a better
>job, don't get together, throw in their savings accounts, and just build a
>radio.  Then we'll see.  Nothing is perfect for everyone.  Not the Orion, or
>the II, or the 7800 or the 9000 or ....  Nothing is perfect.
>
>The whole business is just filling up disk space in my DELETED folder,
>including this useless contribution.
>
>Grant/NQ5T
>
>
>
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