[TenTec] New TT rigs...thoughts

[Mike Schatzberg]

I for one, will wait for the next generation of contest grade transceivers.  I do like the concept of the IC 7300, and I might play with one as a replacement for my TS 590S which I use for portable operation only. 

My Orion II is down now. I am waiting for Ten Tec to call me back with either Price and Delivery for K6, or the specs for me to find an equivalent reed relay.  It's been a few days now. 

I must say that my FTdx 5000, which is a newer design than the 566, offers all the features I need, and DSP tools which are superior to my Orion. I like Orion ergonomics better, because I have used it extensively over the last ten years, but I get by just fine with the busy Yaesu front panel. 

I'm hoping Ten Tec will fully recover soon. I will wait to see how they extend the state of the art with the O3, which they apparently expect to design and build. Judging from my now obsolete FTdx 5K, it will have to be redesigned from the ground up. 

73,

Mike
W2AJI 

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> On May 24, 2016, at 6:34 PM, Jim Brown <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue,5/24/2016 3:16 PM, Stuart Rohre wrote:
>> This is definitely the wave of future radios,-- direct sampling.
>> Icom has one, and others, can Ten Tec be far behind?
> 
> A real world critical review of the ICOM 7300 seems to indicate that it may be OK for casual operation, but not for anything serious, and that some of the advertised features aren't all that they're cracked up to be.
> 
> The Flex 6500 and 6700 radios are a different animal -- a LOT more expensive, but you get what you pay for. With their powerful remote control possibilities and the Maestro making a major improvement to the user interface, a handful of serious contesters are adopting them, and more are likely to follow.
> 
> 73, Jim K9YC
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