[TenTec] Orion2 Firmware Update

[Rsoifer at aol.com]

Open source is simply a different business model than the one employed by  
T-T and Elecraft.  Both models have their pros and cons.  If open  source is 
owhat you really want, buy a Flex.
 
73 Ray W2RS
 
 
In a message dated 4/16/2010 11:34:19 P.M. GMT Standard Time,  
rohre at arlut.utexas.edu writes:

It is  much harder to have open source for the the code in the combined 
hardware  type of radio the  Orion and Orion II represent, than say the 
"front  end" plus a computer and Software Defined code of the Flex radios.

Even  the Flex that contains a PC is radio plus computer just all in one  
box.  And on the flip side, I know some of the folks who build Flex  
radios, and the problems they have had to fix with hardware, and  
difficulties getting parts such as band toroids is kind of like  
listening to Orion software woes.  I have a friend who now has a  cottage 
industry of winding band cores for Flex.  They could not get  the quality 
they needed from offshore manufacturing.

-Stuart  Rohre
K5KVH


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