[TenTec] Orion2 Firmware 2 BIG POSITIVES!

[kc9cdt at aol.com]

1) The OII is one hell of a great radio the way it is (with the 
firmware I'm currently running)
2) John Henry is THERE NOW!  Give him some time.

73,
Lee



-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Sole <msole at loxinfo.co.th>
To: 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment' <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Fri, Apr 16, 2010 1:49 am
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion2 Firmware Update


I think it's a certainty that they used a lot of tools in the software
design but I think the route of taking the existing code and trying to 
make
it better is the wrong way altogether. My take on the idea, no I don't 
have
the capability to even think about how, but bear with me, is simply 
that the
Orion or whatever software based radio is essentially just a collection 
of
some fairly well known hardware, the dsp's, the processor, the fpga's 
etc.
In much the same way as a common pc is put together. Now, Linux was not
built on the Windows framework, rather it uses some generic tools, X11 
as an
example, but the operating system was built from scratch based on an
understanding of the hardware and some core fundamentals. I think if a 
way
forward exists with the Orion or other such software radios it is going 
to
be in the form of something other than that based around the TT code. 
Simply
put if the TT code for the Oriion is Windows then the future is likely 
an
Orion Linux.

Martin, HS0ZED

-----Original Message-----
 From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com 
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On Behalf Of Martin Ewing
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 10:09 AM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion2 Firmware Update

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Wes Attaway (N5WA) <
wesattaway at bellsouth.net> wrote:

>
> Going back to Sam's comments, and to yours, I have to wonder why the
> firmware and associated documentation notes would be proprietary.  
The
> Orions plowed some new ground as far as amateur radio is concerned 
but
> I can't see that there was any brand new technology involved.
>

We can't know for sure unless someone comments from TT, but I assume 
that
the Orion software is built using a commercial software framework or 
set of
libraries that cannot legally be copied, and which you or I would not 
want
to license -- or duplicate.  The development tools (IDE or whatever) 
may be
restricted. Then there is the possibility that TT thinks there is a 
"secret
sauce" in there with great proprietary value to the company.

Or maybe they don't want to reveal some awful spaghetti code. :-)

73
Martin AA6E
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