[TenTec] Final Firmware O2

[Walt K8CV]

I am actually happy with my Orion 2 !

Walt K8CV

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Turnbull" <turnbull at net1.ie>
To: <TenTec at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:50 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Final Firmware O2


>     I feel this sad situation.   Did the complaints on this web site lead
> to disillusionment by the good people at TenTec?   We had an active forum
> for the O2 but it was ignored perhaps because it became irrationally
> critical at times.   Now we seem to have an Orion II which is no longer
> being developed -too bad.   There is great amount that is right about the
> OII but it seems to now be frozen.   I now own both OII and K3 like many
> other people who read this and the Elecrafter site regularly.   Go to the
> Elecrafter site and one finds the owners active engaged with the consumers
> in an amazing way.
>
>
>
>     I still use my Orion II sometimes in preference to the K3.   For one
> thing the external pod of the OII is very useful in contests when one does
> not have software controlling the computer.   Both are very good radios 
> but
> the Orion II seems to have become a product of the past.   Future
> development seems unlikely though I will probably purchase an Orion III if
> it ever comes out.   I suppose we complained too much and we have been
> dropped.   Perhaps I will be eating humble pie and I would not mind doing
> so.   What ever happened to the new PCB to improve the Frequency display 
> did
> the threats and hostile comments of some turn the good people of the 
> mother
> ship off?   I do know one thing and that is that many of the people who 
> use
> to be on this site are not on the Elecrafter site.   It is exciting to own 
> a
> radio which is still being developed though not everyone feels this way.
>
>     Well, I remain an Orion II user.   The radio is not for sale and I 
> hope
> to see further improvements but am not counting on it.   TenTec lead the 
> way
> towards greatly improved receivers.   Thank you TenTec for leading the 
> way.
>
>                                 73 Doug EI2CN
>
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