Good point's and everyone has their own opinion.
One of the things I enjoy doing in this hobby is contesting. I am fortunate
enough (I called 'worked hard') to have decent enough antennas that at times
I can sit on a frequency and run QSO's, sometimes at rates up to 200 QSO's
per minute.
I have an IC-781 (25 year old design), an Omni 6 (12+ year old design), and
the Omni 6 Plus (? Year old design). If you were to be into contesting as
one part of this hobby, would you then prefer the 'obsolete' radios that
will work flawless during 48 hours of contesting, or would you prefer the
'new' design that at any moment, will quit on you?
It somewhat depends on your perspective and what works for you?
The nice thing is the company who produced the 'new' design is working hard
to try and solve these problem...when that happens, it only takes a few
minutes to remove the 'obsolete' radio and try the 'new' one.
Tommy
W4BQF
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From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Ron Spencer
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 2:48 PM
To: tentec@contesting.com
Subject: [TenTec] Orion "work in progress"
Tommy, W4BQF said:
"Very simply solve the two year problem of random loss of RF output power in
full QSK CW operation, when using a Ten Tec amplifier in the keying loop and
solve the random loss of receiver audio. Plus the ability of having firmware
that literally can fix bugs that pop up. Solve the random loss of the
spectrum sweep and either make the sweep presentation become a realistic
presentation of real time band conditions or just remove it all together."
Except for the amplifier problem (I don't have a TT amp) I would have to
agree that these are problems I would hope the next firmware update
fixes....without causing other new problems.
I would not call the Orion a work in progress but rather a first class radio
that indeed has some bugs. But, I'd rather have that (again, not talking
about the amp problem as that would be unacceptable) then a radio that is
obsolete in a year or two.
Ron
N4XD
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