[TenTec] Will tomorrow be the day Orion owners havebeenwaitingfor?

[Ron Castro]

3:57 pm in Sevierville, TN...still nothing on the website...

         Ron   N6IE
      www.N6IE.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Castro" <ronc at sonic.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Will tomorrow be the day Orion owners 
havebeenwaitingfor?


> Now, I don't want any disappointed ham to hang himself with a piece of
> RG-8/U!  The lousy band conditions are depressing enough.  Pass the 
> Xanax...
>
>         Ron Castro
> Chief Technical Officer
>    Results Radio, LLC
>               N6IE
>      www.N6IE.com
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Frazier" <fraz1 at bellsouth.net>
> To: "Ron Castro" <ronc at sonic.net>; "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
> <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Will tomorrow be the day Orion owners have
> beenwaitingfor?
>
>
>> Geeeez Ron.....
>>
>> I thought I was the only one suffering from anxiety over the pending
>> release!  No sleep at all last night......and tonight will be a 10mg
>> Ambien
>> night.
>> Gosh......tomorrow........tomorrow.....????
>>
>> 73 John K4NP
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Ron Castro" <ronc at sonic.net>
>> To: <tentec at contesting.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:09 PM
>> Subject: [TenTec] Will tomorrow be the day Orion owners have been
>> waitingfor?
>>
>>
>>> The excitement is building as Orion and Orion II owners anticipate the
>>> arrival of the first firmware update for their fine rigs in nearly two
>>> years.  Never mind the Oscars, the Grammys, or even the Pulitzer, this
>>> 'red-carpet' event has hams around the planet repeatedly aiming their
>>> browsers at the Ten Tec Downloads page to see if anything new has shown
>>> up!
>>>
>>> The recent e-mail that the beta testing was finished and that the 
>>> factory
>>> planned a release by the end of the week, plus an observation I made a
>>> couple of years ago that most previous releases came on Fridays, has us
>>> all anticipating the big arrival.  If it does come tomorrow, it would be
>>> well-timed for the start of the  ARRL International CW DX contest, a
>>> perfect place to put the new code to the ultimate test!
>>>
>>> This time tomorrow, will we be jubilantly ruling the bands, sporting the
>>> "K3 killer" code, or will be be tossing and turning in our beds thinking
>>> "maybe next week..."?  Join us again tomorrow for another exciting
>>> adventure of "As the Tuning Dial Turns"!
>>>
>>>
>>>         Ron  N6IE
>>>      www.N6IE.com
>>>
>>> <Thank you, thank you.  I'll be here every night till Thursday.  Try the
>>> veal.  Don't forget to tip the waitress!>
>>>
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