[TenTec] Jupiter firmware any news????

[Gary D Krause]

Well, the good news is that they do have competitors and those competitors are 
turning out some pretty good products.  Elecraft is high on my list.  After 
all, we have a competitive market system so why not take advantage of it. 
 It's not like we don't have a choice.

Gary, N7HTS


On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:44:49 +0000
  starmike at bellsouth.net wrote:
> I would have to agree with Doug here.   We bought our rigs based on the 
>Marketing that Tentec has done.  A lot of us Orion II owners purchased based 
>on the promise of the new "High Speed Sweep" that was coming.  Well it has 
>been coming for several years now and Tentec still has not delivered.  And I 
>suspect it may never come.  And now with this latest news, new SW 
>enhancements are not coming either.  I do realize they need their military 
>business, but they should not tell us what they are going to do and not do 
>it.  Well my 2 cents worth.   
> -------------- Original message from "Douglas Shock" 
><douglas.shock at gmail.com>: -------------- 
> 
> 
>> Hummm…I don't recall seeing any paperwork in the box my radio was shipped in 
>> asking for my patience as a customer while they, TenTec, generate real 
>> monies from the military/gov market. 
>> 
>> However, I do recall lots of marketing that stated frequent SW updates and 
>> feature enhancements. 
>> 
>> I play in the gov/military space comm. sector. I get to perform product 
>> evaluation/selection for future high speed comm. needs and I can assure 
>> you…TenTec is not a huge player. 
>> I am happy that so many of you are so patient and willing to make excuses. I 
>> truly am. It makes me want to cry. 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:28 PM, John Graves wrote: 
>> 
>> > I might as well jump into this pool. 
>> > 
>> > If I remember correctly, what was given to us from TT was a 
>> > development list containing a list of possible options. It was also 
>> > stated that the first of this list, essentially Ver 1.29 plus keyboard 
>> > support and cw decode was being gone over for issues. The next follow 
>> > on was to be support for the new screen for existing Jupiters (raise 
>> > hand...Me...ME Please call on ME). 
>> > 
>> > I haven't seen anything that says that they will not release the first 
>> > feature set if they are that close to releasing the new (Black)Jupiter. 
>> > They apparently have cw decode on display. It is reasonable to guess 
>> > that what they refer to as being delayed .... is development of the 
>> > other features mentioned as possible, PSK support etc. 
>> > 
>> > I don't know// I think that TT doing bread and butter work is in our 
>> > best interests as well. 
>> > 
>> > So that's my 2 (maybe 3 1/2) cents of this issue. Settle down and let 
>> > them do what they have to do and we will be rewarded by improvement in a 
>> > great little transceiver. 
>> > 
>> > 73 and Good evening 
>> > 
>> > John Graves 
>> > WA1JG 
>> > jh.graves at verizon.net 
>> > 
>> > Andrew B. Steen wrote: 
>> > > I talked to the sales manager at TenTec, and there are no immediate 
>>plans 
>> > to 
>> > > finish the development of the new firmware for Jupiter nor the new card 
>> > for 
>> > > the Orion II. They are focusing on a new radio for the military and that 
>> > > has tied up most of the assets at this time. Maybe by early next year. 
>> > > Andrew K6STN 
>> > > 
>> > > -----Original Message----- 
>> > > From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto: 
>> > tentec-bounces at contesting.com] 
>> > > On Behalf Of ab9go at earthlink.net 
>> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 6:39 PM 
>> > > To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment 
>> > > Subject: [TenTec] Jupiter firmware any news???? 
>> > > 
>> > > I thought that TenTec would have it out by now. Any ETA????? 
>> > > 
>> > > 73 
>> > > Randy AB9GO 
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