[TenTec] Jupiter II anybody?

[HUGHESRO]

Bill, Instead of ambitious maybe progressive imho. I have or had 3 TT but not Orion, But have used on several occasions. I think that as u climb the letter of experience in Ham Radio whatever the equipment name or type, You learn ALC, Dsp etc. Maybe not DSP as a technical skill, but how it is used, what it does in different situations. Hopefully what it's not suppose to do. Anyway u get the drift. I feel after 38 years as Ham, that's it not that difficult, but more fun to see what I can get it to do. But after 3 yrs or so watching the reflectors esp Orion, there was a lot of frustration in many areas. I, my opinion only, felt there was a number of users who did not understand the setup or the operation. Thus some problems were not problems with Orion but user malfunction. Although there were many real physical problems that have been corrected. So to answer the question. It can be very user friendly or not. HI HI. Owning a Jupiter now, I think as marketing ploy a Jupe 2 would
  sell like hot cakes. With various upgrading. A middle grade and would cost less than FT 2000 or pro 3 or 4. But with internal tuner on all. I hope I made my point. Tnxs, You folks are great here. Roger,  w4iv, tn.
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Steve Kline" <skline17 at comcast.net>
Reply-To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
Date:  Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:16:29 -0600

>Bill, 
>I would like Ten Tec to continue development with the ORION series and
>believe it is "modern" and "user friendly" today in terms of setting it
>up and operating.  As reported in other threads, some are seeing
>operation problems with specific modes and configurations.  I don't
>equate those problems as "user friendliness" issues but rather technical
>issues with resolution in-work.  As with any top-of-the-line product,
>lessons learned and such, will often work their way down as enhancements
>and/or upgrades to other model lines that improve their respective
>operation and utility.  
>
>My first rig and now 2nd radio in the shack is a TS-850AT.  I have never
>used an OMNI VI or "PLUS" or other TT rig so I can't really say that the
>ORION is more or any less user friendly than earlier TT rigs but it
>isn't any more of a challenge than operating my TS850 correctly.
>
>>From the respect of a "user friendly rig" I don't feel that the ORION is
>too ambitious.  I consider myself average, and believe the radio can be
>operated by most average operators that have an ability to comprehend
>what they are reading and go to the radio menu and duplicate it.  You do
>have to listen to the feedback (informational) the radio is giving you
>in your ears when tweaking several parameters in the menu for a specific
>signal or condition.  My personal operating preference is to be able to
>exercise that control myself as needed for varying conditions.  At the
>end of the day, and once you have the radio initially set up for a
>preferred operating style, there are not a whole lot of additional
>controls or menu interaction to change for varying signal activity.  I
>set up my receiver sensitivity initially when I turn the radio on or
>change bands and after that really only need to touch the RF Gain,
>filters, DSP BW, slope or PBT based upon adjacent frequency activity or
>changing conditions.  To me this is normal operating.  I have been using
>my ORION for one year now, and am currently running version 1.372 by
>choice.  I DX and contest and could live with this release for sometime.
>
>Curious as to what rig you are currently using for comparison to the
>ORION with respect to user friendliness?  Are you also an ORION user?
>
>Steve - W5JK
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 11:11 AM
>To: tentec at contesting.com
>Subject: [TenTec] Jupiter II anybody?
>
>How many feel that the Orion series is just too ambitious and  will
>never 
>turn out to be a really user friendly rig for the  average ham, no
>matter how 
>many revisions are made?
> 
>How many would like to see TT come out with something  modern having the
>
>"feel" of an OMNI VI, but with an  Rx like the Orion II main?  Possibly
>an updated 
>Jupiter?
> 
>Maybe somebody from TT will respond to this too?
> 
>Bill  K3UJ
>
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