[TenTec] Orion Power Out

[art N4UC]

You are correct. It's because having the most reliable connectors on a radio is not nearly as powerful a marketing tool as a flashy display with a gazillion features that nobody actually needs. But since my profession for the last 40 years has been the design of cable harnesses and connector interfaces for space vehicles, I'd rather have a radio that boasted about reliable connectors!

> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 22:00:23 -0400
> From: jrichards at k8jhr.com
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Orion Power Out
> 
> For all the high technology that goes into these radios, it seems, to me 
> at least, they have done precious little development on the power supply 
> side. Not that you can improve on two wires, red and black, but the 
> connectors all seem a tad archaic.
> 
> Of course they have done even less to develop... knobs...    ;-)
> 
> (sorry, getting silly)
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> 
> On 10/12/2013 9:54 PM, art N4UC wrote:
> 
> > The only Kenwood HF radios I've ever owned (930 and 940) just had AC inputs, no DC. But I do like what they do with the vhf/uhf mobile rigs with the pigtail and a connector on the end.
> >
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