[TenTec] Comparison of Ten Tec Orion II with Flex 500A

[N4PY2]

The big thing with Flex is the panadapter.  The SSB performance of both the 
Orion and Flex 5000 is great.  My software can easily provide a great 
panadapter for the Orion with LP-Pan if you want to do the VE7TK mod, or 
with an inexpensize Flex 1500 without the mod.

Carl Moreschi N4PY
121 Little Bell Drive
Hays, NC 28635
www.n4py.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Kirschner" <frank at fkirschner.net>
To: "N4PY2" <n4py2 at earthlink.net>; "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" 
<tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Comparison of Ten Tec Orion II with Flex 500A


> That's probably enough to make the difference; I operate a lot of CW.
>
> If the SSB performance is much better with the Flex, that might move me 
> back
> to undecided.
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> Frank
> KF6E
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:02 PM, N4PY2 <n4py2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> They are both great radios.  The biggest difference is on CW.  The Flex
>> radios have no CW QSK and the internal keyer in the Flex radios has 
>> latency
>> which makes using the internal keyer difficult.
>>
>> Carl Moreschi N4PY
>> 121 Little Bell Drive
>> Hays, NC 28635
>> www.n4py.com
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Frank Kirschner" <kirschne at erols.com>
>> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 2:50 PM
>> Subject: [TenTec] Comparison of Ten Tec Orion II with Flex 500A
>>
>>
>> > All,
>> >
>> > I realize that the two are very different realizations of transceivers,
>> > but
>> > from an operating standpoint, does anyone have any experience or
>> > observations?    The cost is about the same for the two (or close 
>> > enough
>> > that I'm considering them both).  Which "works" better?  Ability to 
>> > hear
>> > signals, ability to transmit a signal that will be heard?
>> >
>> > I've read reviews of both, but without hands-on experience, there's no
>> way
>> > for me to compare, and I don't want to buy both.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > 73,
>> > Frank
>> > KF6E
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