[TenTec] [orion565] Good idea...

[d.e.warnick at comcast.net]

Thank you,
Dave
WA3MKB

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From: "Grant Youngman" <nq5t at tx.rr.com> 

> > I think K3 will make TT software designers sweat a lot and If 
> > they don't do something to improve the Orion soon,lots of 
> > users will jump to the new K3,by the specs and features,if 
> > its true what they say,it will beat the Orion. 
> 
> > Throw the v2 spaghetti code into the dumpster 
> > where it belongs. With Elecraft's K3 on the horizon, time may be 
> > running out on Orion customers' patience. 
> 
> In the main, that's ridiculous. I did spend some time with the K3 
> yesterday. Kept going back to look and touch and feel some more. Hard to 
> tell in a hamfest environment how the receiver works, but it's pretty easy 
> to tell that my not too big and not too fat fingers would have a hard time 
> finding a friend in the K3. I can tell you for sure, you don't want to use 
> the internal squeaker -- ahhhh, speaker. I'd have the same problem with the 
> big overbloated Yaesu, too, for having too many and too small controls on a 
> grotesquely cluttered and unfriendly front panel -- those guys need to go on 
> a diet. 
> 
> Some really ugly things have been happening with US radios -- and I limit it 
> to US radios, because for the most part, we don't know who wrote what for 
> the Yaesus or Icoms or Kenwoods. But we can oft times put names to who 
> wrote what for the K's, the Flex's and the TT's. It's now become fine, if 
> not downright fashionable, to berate or praise the individuals we hold 
> responsible for whatever feature we don't like (and around which we scream 
> "bug" since it doesn't suit our particular fancy) or whatever real bugs may 
> exist. As though it is one person's fault, or some stupid manager's fault 
> for not hiring the "right" person. If only "bob" could rewrite the whole 
> radio from scratch ... Because obviously "bob" knows what he's doing. Right 
> !? "Bob" may get hit by a truck. THEN who will write the radio? Will it 
> be "old marvin" from down the street fiddling with open source code? Most 
> software development companies I'm aware of make sure it doesn't matter 
> whether "bob" lives or dies. And radio companies have indeed become 
> software companies, with a not unexpected set of growing pains in the 
> process. 
> 
> If you don't like a radio, you are free to get rid of it and buy something 
> else. You also have to be willing to accept the fact that you're simply 
> trading one set of issues (as you see them) for a different set (as you will 
> undoubtedly see them). And the next thing will be complaints about "jim" 
> and his verson of spaghetti code. 
> 
> My crappola quotient has simply been exceeded ... (or maybe since the FCC 
> has been overturned I can actually say bullsh*t) :-) 
> 
> NNNN End of rant 
> 
> Grant/NQ5T 
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