Can't we just get off this color thing?
It's a pointless discussion. If someone wants to buy radio with color
then let them eat cake. It won't hear better -- but if it floats your boat
then by all means go for the gusto.
The front panel shot of the 7800 -- including the screent -- reminds
me of the cover of the latest "Where's Waldo" book -- regardless of
the earlier weigh-in with Jack Nicolson quotes (saints preserve us!)
I suspect with the editions of PC software coming out in the not too
distant future for the Orion, you will be able to gratify your rods and
cones with color galore.
The whole discussion is a non-starter. I hope Icom has made (will
make?) a good radio -- then there will be two.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go USE my Orion -- and not
waste time drooling over somebody elses glamour shot .... :-)
Grant/NQ5T
> Hello all... I said it then, and I'll say it now: not using a color
> display was a major marketing mistake. Kick me off here if you want
> to, but... given the major bucks these things cost, given their
> marginal performance differences, I'd buy the IC-7800 in a
> heartbeat-over a monochrome display-and I'll wager the majority of
> the chosen-customers in this high-end market will vote (with their
> wallets) in the same way (my wallet is-by necessity-abstaining, since
> dollars cannot vote in absentia.)
>
> I buy things not because they LOOK better, but because they WORK
> better. Yet, at this level of performance, there is very little
> difference between choices, performance-wise. Certainly, in my own
> pre-purchase inspections, I would LOOK at Ten Tec first, long, and
> hard. But I would look and compare everyone else as well. Only a total
> dummy wouldn't. That monochrome display is a deal-killer. I was told
> at the time I raised a lot of questions about the display, that to go
> to a color display would have added $500 to the price of the rig. I
> don't question the veracity of that statement-but with entire color
> laptops down to $700, perhaps it needs reevaluating? Maybe just add a
> VGA port? I used the phrase "deal-killer" very seriously... monochrome
> is utterly NON-competitive.
>
> IMHO, the OMNI VI was THAT much better than its competition, but
> nothing top-of-the-line currently offered by anyone is much different
> from its competition, RF-wise. The photons don't care whether it's my
> EFJ Ranger II or my Argonaut II that 'made' them-much less a
> multi-thousand-dollar whiz-bang. That leaves ergonomics and what I'll
> call 'other features'. Two things stand out on the '7800: COLOR and
> dual-freq receive. Color has been proven time and again in efficiency
> studies to improve the human-machine interface-especially when the
> operator is tired or harried. The very definition of
> contest-operating.
>
> Time (and sales performance) will certainly tell.
>
>
>
> 73 Ed Tanton N4XY <n4xy@earthlink.net>
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