[TenTec] TenTec Digest, Vol 83, Issue 9

[tlp1 at vzavenue.net]

Please turn off the stupid...PLEASE!!!!!

A few things....

I'm damned fortunate to have gotten my electronics 
experience, and more, from 30 plus years in aviation 
electronics. Voice and data radio are a very small part of 
aviation electronics in whole. To this day, I've never had 
to depend on forums like this one, and some of the idiot 
parades out there that pass themselves off as some kind of 
half-witted tech forum/think tank. I've always been able to 
set up my own station, and maintain it with zero assistance. 
It's what makes the ham radio hobby fun, is to have the 
technical challenges in front of you, and figure them out 
yourself. Before getting involved in this hobby, I'd always 
believed that design, and self sufficiency was one of the 
cornerstones of ham radio. Who knows, maybe it was at the 
beginning of the 20th century. It sure isn't that way now. 
That is if you pay attention to the whiners here and other 
places on the internet.

I have the Orion II, and I'm very pleased with it. For you 
hams that couldn't build your own gear if you're life 
depended on it (and build something comparable in 
performance and out of pocket expense as the Orion II), much 
less, and I STRONGLY EMPHASIZE MUCH LESS, work on and modify 
your own gear when it breaks, and to enhance its performance 
from the component level, you don't understand how lucky you 
are that commercial ham gear is available from a lot of 
people. 

Be happy with what you have. If you don't like it, buy 
something that will do the job for you, OR BUILD YOUR OWN!!

When you can build something that performs like the the 
Orion II, from scratch and talk to us on the air with it, 
let me know, and let me know how much it cost you.

KU5Q