[TenTec] Orion 2 Situation

[Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP]

ALL of the FT1000s in our club have been fixed long ago.
Can't team-contest with them unless you deploy Tom's mod.

Some years back we broke the all time world records ins CQWW SSB and CW
using TS-850s. (1999).
It was our club's "standard radio".  That way all operators of the team are
already familiar with the radios. 
Everyone had one (even me - but I hated it).

If you are contesting on a shoestring budget, it's probably still the best
way to go.  They are very cheap now.

Now days the K3 is the only way to go for team contesting.  Even some of our
guys who bought them a few years ago and sold them, are starting to buy them
again.  Elecraft has continuously improved them.

We tried hard to get Ten-Tec to support our dx-expeditions but no luck.
The manager of the German Ten-Tec distributor organized the 2008 dx-pedition
to Ducie Island (VP8DX).
After Ten-Tec turned him down, he reluctantly was sponsored by Elecraft.
5 years later, Elecraft owns that market. 

73
Rick, DJ0IP

-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Brown
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 7:28 AM
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion 2 Situation

On 7/9/2013 9:55 PM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
> Most of our BCC guys are still team contesting (and winning) with 
> older FT-1000's or TS-850s.

The 850 is a decent radio, reasonably clean. I ran a pair for a while and
liked them. The FT1000 comes with clicks, and must be fixed, but was an
improvement over the 850.  The MP and its family have one audio processing
setting that can be made to sound great (and clean), but all the other
settings sound awful and are dirty. The W8JI website has good info on fixing
the clicks. K6XX and I managed to coexist pretty well both running MPs, but
we were happy to replace them with K3s. Bob later went to work for Elecraft
as an EE.

73, Jim K9YC


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