[TenTec] On and on and on and on....

[jack]

me too, both basic Orio
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Menzel" <retire at means.net>
To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] On and on and on and on....


> And AMEN.
>
> I love my Orions.  Both of them.
>
> Larry, N0XB
> Northfield, MN
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Peter Connors
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 1:45 PM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: [TenTec] On and on and on and on....
>
> So here I am, the owner of a brand new Orion II and much of this
> reflector would have me believe it is a pos and almost obsolete. Yet I
> bought it after spending a couple of weeks reading the reflector
> archives for months and years back, downloading the manual and reading
> that several times, and examining the firmware changelog. Only then did
> I commit my cash (and Orions are *much* more expensive here on the
> European market - but still half the price of the grotesque alternatives).
>
> It became clear to me that a lot of the bitching was about details that
> probably wouldn't worry me much when factored against the RF
> performance. Now, after a week of hands on, any worries about those
> details have evaporated. Minor firmware quibbles aside, many appear to
> have originated from the personal taste in operating style of other ops.
> The Orion is simply superlative; not perfect, superlative.
>
> I had considered the Flexradio equally carefully: much of the
> performance and the open source software model is a very large plus, but
> the poor rejection of an image just 22kHz away is a very large negative.
> Yes, you can adjust the image cancellation somewhat for your spot
> frequency but even then it ain't too good ;-) And using processing power
> to work around lo spurii seemed to me a step backwards. To me SDR lacks
> 'front end credibility' and has not yet offered a mature system.
>
> This brings me to the one thing I think the Orion does need - as pointed
> out by others, a final IF output would allow an open source model a
> fantastic baseline to start from.
>
> 73,
> Pete G4PLZ
> ...until they fell over backwards, foaming at the mouth (with apologies
> to Monty Python):-)
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