Scott,
Why not give Heil nformation so they can make an adapter for thei electrofet
equipped mics on the Orion?
OR
TT make a boom mic like the Heil BM10?
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ten-Tec Inc. Amateur Radio Sales" <sales@tentec.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 16:28
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Jupiter
> At 10:28 AM 1/18/05 -0500, you wrote:
> > > We gave away the source code to the GUI as well - and I see
> > > that commercial software developers have generally taken our source
> > > code (provided free) and turned it into a salable product - from which
> > > Ten-Tec derives no income.
> >
> >TenTec derives extra income from doing this because of the enhanced value
of
> >the Jupiter and Pegasus from third party developers. It is difficult to
> >know how much TenTec sales have been helped by this but I believe it is
not
> >trivial. I know several purchaser's of Jupiter's and Pegasus's that say
one
> >of the determining factors on purchasing the radio was the availability
of
> >third party software.
> >
> >Carl Moreschi N4PY
> >Franklinton, NC
>
> True - which was some of the incentive to give away the source code for
> the GUI to start with rather than selling it (or keeping the code to
> ourselves).
> There are other examples....like providing InRad with engineering data so
> they could develop their own series of filters for Ten-Tec transceivers.
>
> The irony of this discussion over having not done recent firmware updates
> for the
> Jupiter is the large amount of negative discussion about the Orion because
> we HAVE done updates so often.
>
> I posted a message yesterday that was a statement of fact - that not
having
> done a firmware change in 15 months is completely different from no longer
> supporting a transceiver. I've repeated the facts again today.
>
> Thanks
> Scott Robbins
> W4PA
>
>
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