[TenTec] Band Scopes, Engineers, Firmware, Etc.

[Kim Elmore]

What you said!

Now, I've never used an IC-7800, a Yaesu FT-9000 or any of the other 
high-end, high quality Japanese rigs. Maybe I'm really missing 
something by not having a high-speed sweep function. But, contrary to 
what I hear and read, I've found the band sweep function on my O II 
to be rather useful. I can't see IMD components on it, but I can 
easily see pile-ups and and even catch the stray CW signal.

I also actually tune the receiver, hunting for good opportunities, 
but that harkens back to my earlier days with an ancient TS-930S, and 
hollow-state radios before that. I simply don't see why there's such 
a hue and cry over a Faster! More Colorful! Higher Resolution! band 
sweep function that we absolutely positively must have *right now.* 
In my benighted state, its lack doesn't keep me from enjoying my O 
II, which is leaps and bounds beyond anything I've ever experienced.

Then again, maybe ignorance really is bliss...

Kim Elmore, N5OP

At 03:27 PM 8/19/2008, you wrote:
>Oh, the distress!  Oh, the pain!  My $2500 investment provided me with a
>box that is only a giant tiny bit better than the $10k boxes that are
>available....and then there is this wierd box with no knobs that you
>can't measure, that MUST be better than my radio.  And, and, there is
>this kit radio that measured a whole dB better, but it cost THE SAME!
>OH MY, what is a person to do.  Besides, I can't figure out how to use
>the thing, so it must be TenTec's fault.  And, if I don't have some sort
>of real-time scope how am I possibly going to sleep at night,,,after
>all, I spent $2500 bucks on this thing.  Oh dear, what am I to do?
>
>I know: I just bitch for a while, instead of using the best damn amateur
>radio available on this earth.  I never wanted to use the thing
>anyways--it's different than my Swan, which suited me just fine for 30
>years.  None of those heathen-net ports on the back to connect to the
>hinternet on that baby nosiree!  Oh My.
>
>I wish I had one to complain about. :)
>
>Till Then: Omni-V Omni VI+, Centurion, 238 Tuner, along with a bunch of
>JapJunk in boxes somewhere in the basement, and one Clegg Thor, (just to
>remember when)
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