[TenTec] Is Orion really worth it? Given the published problems?

[James Duffer]

>From: "Ron Castro" <ronc at sonic.net>
>Reply-To: Ron Castro <ronc at sonic.net>,Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment 
><tentec at contesting.com>
>To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [TenTec] Is Orion really worth it? Given the published 
>problems?
>Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:35:03 -0700

SNIP
>You either have received a special beta copy of the firmware that the rest
>of the users on this list have not had access to (I thought Bob Sherwood 
>was
>the only one!), you haven't used your radio enough to notice the above
>problems, or you're not discerning enough to know how a good radio should
>operate.  If the latter is the case, don't worry...there are lots of folks
>who can't tell the difference between a Ford and Mercedes, and folks who
>drive Porsches, but only to church and never over 55 MPH.  There are lots 
>of
>hams who buy expensive, high-performance radios who only use them to check

>into an old-farts net on 40 only to say "QRU and QRV here...back to the 
>net"

>once a week or to tell their cronies about their latest medical maladies. 
>In

>that case, none of the above matters and an FT-101 would work fine.
SNIP

This may be so, but at least they appear to be enjoying themselves and 
having fun using their equipment.  I guess the Mercedes has more complexity 
and prone to breakdown.  I think think I prefer the Ford.

73, Jim de wd4air