[TenTec] Ten-Tec Transceiver Survey

[Martin Ewing AA6E]

Put me down as one Orion owner who would pay a reasonable amount for a 
maintenance contract that would cover hardware repairs and/or firmware 
updates.

As someone involved in software development, I may have a different 
slant on how software projects work.  Software will never be "finished", 
and it always has bugs.  There is always room for improvement. I want 
somebody working on polishing and perfecting the firmware for a good 
long time!  As soon as you stop support, bit rot sets in.  (Put another 
way, your resale value drops.)

The ideal approach, as shown by Flex Radio and some others is to work 
with the user community for  software development and support.  I 
clicked the "open source" box on the Survey, and I hope many others will 
do so as well.  There is often more energy and talent in the user 
community for volunteer software work than there is in a small company 
that has to meet a payroll.

73 Martin AA6E

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Martin Ewing, AA6E
aa6e at ewing.homedns.org
+1-203-315-5160