[TenTec] NEW SOFTWARE and other news

[Frank Holladay]

Those rumors remind me of conditions in a plant where I worked.  If someone 
sneezed in the warehouse, it was a cat 5 hurricane by the time it got to the 
front office.
73,
Frank K4VMO (Still content with a Scout)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Emerson" <w4tje at lexcominc.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:02 PM
Subject: [TenTec] NEW SOFTWARE and other news


> just posted on the firmware site, as of 1 April, new upgrades for both
> Orion Classic and Orion 2.
> this is what I have found so far:
> A udio seems to be as robust as the audio in orion classic version 1.371.
> P rocessor works fine all the way to level 10.
> R oger beep function now available in the ssb menu.
> I ncreased intelligibilty factor on nr.
> L ove the new ten tec logo when powering up.
>
> F ound several new features, still checking them out.
> O n the orion 2, the user now has more color schemes for front panel.
> O n the classic, the black and white display is blacker and whiter.
> L ooks like all issues have been cleaned up to me.
>
> i also heard the following rumors on the bands tonight. several hams were
> talking about it, so it must be true.
> on the kenwood net, they said that the fcc is going to eliminate testing
> requirements for all phone licenses, while raising the testing speed for 
> cw
> back to 5,13, and 20wpm.
> some guys on 3.930 said they heard on radio free america that the arrl had
> finally responded to the criticism of their proposal for incentive
> licensing in the 1960's. as a result, the league was working on a first
> draft of an apology which will be issued to all former members who were
> general or conditional class licensees at that time.
> i also heard on 75 meters that both yaesu and icom were going to file for
> bankruptcy.
> 73 de Jack W4TJE
>
>
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