[TenTec] Orion Ergonomics, Key Clicks, etc.

[Jack Emerson]

hello Bill,
I will be at the charlotte hamfest tomorrow, manning the qcwa booth. pse
stop by if you have time and explain to me what this discussion is about. i
don't fully understand it. 
and this is also an invitation to any others on this list to stop by the
qcwa booth as well.
73 de jack w4tje


> [Original Message]
> From: Bill Tippett <btippett at alum.mit.edu>
> To: <tentec at contesting.com>
> Date: 3/9/2007 4:43:40 PM
> Subject: [TenTec]  Orion Ergonomics, Key Clicks, etc.
>
>
>
> N0XB:
>  >Patience, fellas, patience.
>
>  >I know, we've been waiting quite a while, and I disagree, I think Scott
> et.al., at TT are aware of these things, and will at some point address
them
> as best they can.
>
>          I disagree Larry.  4 years is far too long to
> change Orion's default CW Rise/Fall setting from 5 ms
> (which absolutely guarantees nasty key clicks) to
> 8 ms which produces one of, if not *THE* cleanest, CW
> signals to be found on the air.
>
>          THIS SIMPLY UNACCEPTABLE.  How much re-programming
> does it take to change one default value anyway?  Even
> I should be able to change one value from 5 to 8 instantly,
> yet here we are at 4 years and counting.  This is not
> about our impatience but Ten-Tec's apparent indifference
> to shipping a rig from the factory that is guaranteed to
> pollute our bands with clicks until the user changes the
> factory default.  How much longer will we have to wait?
> Hopefully not another 11 years (i.e Yaesu).
>
>                                          73,  Bill  W4ZV
>
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