[TenTec] New Firmware

[John Simon]

Now that is what is needed in this day and age.  No Call or signature at the 
bottom, but I wholeheartedly agree.
I've only had my OII for about six months and when connected to the RS232 
(correctly!) within approx 2 minutes I was back operational with the new 
updates and everything works as advertized.

                         73, John de VK2XGJ
Sometimes I pretend to be normal, but it gets boring.
         So I go back to being me!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Close" <rclose at nhwisp.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 1:48 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] New Firmware


>I just went back to the beginning of my watching this reflector--I was and
> am still considering the purchase of an O-VII to replace the venerable 
> Omni
> VI+ .     I started watching this to learn about the rig through the eyes 
> of
> others.  In this year I have learned the following:  1. The rig is great, 
> it
> does the job it was designed to do. 2. Or, the rig sucks, because the user
> is computer illiterate or technology challenged.
>
> On the subject of the Orion software, it is even more obvious that many
> hams haven't the slightest idea of how two computer-based machines
> communicate with one another. I can't believe that one person, never mind
> scores of them, think that a serial connection communicates slower than
> using carrier pigeons, and that such behavior is poor programming by
> Ten-Tec, when the problem is simple:  the rig owner is clueless as to  how
> to set up for and to perform the upgrade, so they blame it on the rig
> manufacturer.  One guy blamed a tuner problem on software! (even knowing 
> his
> 20+ year old antenna had bad connections!!??) (I erased it, but seem to
> remember a tile of "buggy software problem in new release"  .For God's 
> sake,
> read the directions! (all of them, and if you don't know what a parity bit
> is or what is meant by flow control settings when setting up a serial
> connection, take five minutes to understand what you are doing, don't just
> skip over that paragraph!)  If all else fails, think about your 
> observations
> a bit before firing off a "Ten-Tec Sucks" posting, please.   Blaming a 
> KNOWN
> crap antenna problem on Ten-Tec software is absurd.
>
> Simply amazing, and indicative of a deep underlying concern I have about 
> our
> society:  Instead of an attitude of "can do" it is now "blame your
> inadequacies on someone else, preferably someone you can sue".  Nobody 
> reads
> release notes, nobody understands the meaning of "Beta", nobody takes time
> to learn about the computer or radio, or anything else they buy.  They
> expect to know how to do things by some ethereal transfer of knowledge
> without effort.  When things have sunk to  such a low that egg farmers 
> label
> their egg cartons with the warning "contains egg", you have to wonder what
> the hell is going on.  Common sense isn't common any more.  That's what we
> get when we elect lawyers to make the laws:  Laws that require more 
> lawyers.
> DUH!  (whew, I feel better)
>
> As far as Ten-Tec monitoring and/or using a reflector to communicate:  at
> what level of dumbness would they address their comments to?  I think that
> they do a pretty  good job of building rigs.  I know they do a great job 
> of
> repairing their stuff.  Their documentation of hardware upgrades leaves a
> lot to be desired, while the documentation of theory of operation is
> excellent, giving me enough ammunition to solve or answer most questions.
> Overall, I do business with them because their stuff is better than the
> Japanese( entry to mid level )equipment.  To find something that compares
> with a $5k Orion you need to consider a $10k rice box.  On top of that, my
> cash goes to an American supporting his family, as opposed to a Japanese
> family. In today's world this is an important consideration, at least to 
> me.
> I really don't think it is a manufacturer's responsibility to answer or 
> even
> acknowledge questions that they have already addressed in the 
> documentation.
> If they had a canned answer: "Read the Manual", people would complain that
> they didn't read it to them. If they were read to, people would complain
> about their inability to understand.  If they spent enough time to help 
> the
> guy understand, he would complain about the complexity of the product. 
> No,
> I am ok with Ten-Tec avoiding this reflector--it proves they know where
> effort would be wasted.
>
> Some of you should  consider going back to smoke signals!  "Warning(insert
> ten languages here): use of smoke signals exposes you to smoke, which 
> could
> make your eyes water.  If you fall off the cliff because of watering eyes,
> remember:  you were warned".
>
>
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