[TenTec] New Ten-Tec Website & Jupiter News!

albrooks7 at comcast.net albrooks7 at comcast.net
Fri May 16 13:05:37 EDT 2008


I''m surprised they're not changing the model# also. Although the majority of the changes are cosmetic, the morse reader is kind of a blockbuster that is sure to attract a whole new market. The first question a potential buyer of a used Jupiter is going to be "Does it have the code reader in it?".
It will probably drop the price of the older used ones also. Is there a chance the older ones could be retro-fitted with the reader?
-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Ron Notarius W3WN" <wn3vaw at verizon.net> 

> Of course, if you happen to look at the Transceivers page, 
> http://radio.tentec.com/amateur/transceivers , what's the first radio shown? 
> The Orion! And it even has a page all it's own -- 
> http://radio.tentec.com/amateur/transceivers/566 , with further links to 
> reviews, the brochures, and the firmware update page. 
> 
> Certainly the sign of 2nd or 3rd class treatment, to be featured as the 
> first transceiver. Yup, Bob is absolutively posilutely right, how dare 
> Ten-Tec even consider mentioning something else besides the Orion. 
> 
> Now, setting the sarcasm aside for a moment, what I think is sneaky is that 
> Ten-Tec hasn't updated the model number of the Jupiter to differentiate 
> between the original and the new... ok, sure, it's only a cosmetic 
> difference, but one has to wonder if someone decided that rebranding the new 
> rig as the "2" model would start up all the "Lost in Space" wisecracks 
> again. 
> 
> 73 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of BobK8IA at aol.com 
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 10:57 AM 
> To: alan.n5na at gmail.com; tentec at contesting.com 
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] New Ten-Tec Website & Jupiter News! 
> 
> 
> 
> In a message dated 5/16/2008 6:32:06 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, 
> alan.n5na at gmail.com writes: 
> 
> Hey Gang, check out the new Ten-Tec website and the news on the Jupiter! 
> 
> http://tentec.com/ 
> 
> 73, 
> 
> Alan N5NA 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Yep, looks like us Orion and Orion II owners arent even second class 
> citizens now. The Omni VII gets this gigantic photo on the first of the 
> "Radio" 
> wesbsite page and the Orion II gets this miniscule little photo cut. 
> 
> Very unsettling to see the TT emphasis on the lesser radios and the Orion 
> line not even shown in the "40 Years of Ten Tec" ad. The handwriting is on 
> the 
> wall folks. 
> 
> Also, note how sneaky they are now in not even showing the revision dates 
> for the firmware upgrades. Probably because its been exactly one year today 
> (5/16/2007) when the last Orion II update was issued. Not real comforting. 
> 
> Orion III? 
> 
> 
> 73, Bob K8IA 
> Arizona USA 
> www.k8ia.com 
> 
> 
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