i AGREE. Just let this go. Life is ok. I got an idea. Lets talk about my
anniversary of 10 years of having a heart transplant. I'm not doing to bad. But
I love ham radio and it's really helped me thru this last 10 yrs as well as my
faith. So if I get a new Orion, can this thread stop. OK??
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: William Addams <wiladdamsham@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 05:29:53 -0700 (PDT)
>Urban myths.
>Facts are:
>Doug Smith and Gary Barbour wrote the classic Orion.
> Doug Smith left TenTec under non-amicable terms.
>The Classic Orion had lots of lock up issues, a lot due to the DSP code
>couldn't communicate well with the other microprocessors, and would lock up
>the busses.
>Gary Barbour re-wrote ALL of the Orion II, mainly to free up processing time
>so that the communications channels would not lock up anymore. Also due to the
>fact that the chip was going obsolete, and then decided to add a color screen
>and better filtering.
>
>Those are facts.
>They don't have a team of 100s doing engineering work, like Icom and Yaesu and
>Kenwood do.
>They only have a couple of people in engineering that do design work, and only
>a couple of people that do testing internally. They do a lot of their user
>testing by having their service group and others take sets home and test on
>the air.
>This is a "Ham" engineering team, who try to make the best products available
>at a cost that most can afford. They are not a team of hundreds of engineers,
>otherwise you would see more and more products coming out. This team of
>engineers also has to deal with obsolete parts issues, problems in the
>factory, answering hundreds of service questions posted by people who are
>using the radio "in a different way" than anyone else on the planet.
>Being new to this, I would love to see a radio that has ALL bands available
>for ALL modes, including 6m and 2m. Maybe that isn't possible, but it would be
>nice to have something all rolled up into one.
>However, given that they are constantly getting barraged by arguments on how
>NR should work, we may not see something "new" from them for quite some time.
>Maybe the people on this board are part of the problem.
>A lot of people start yelling before they have found out that the problem is
>really in their shack.Next time, ask if someone else has seen this, you will
>be surprised, most problems are answered right on here, but people ignore the
>answer, only to find out that later, the original answer by one of your fellow
>hams was actually correct, and it was your mic, not your Orion SW.
>A lot of people praise the new NR scheme, and a lot of people condemn it. Some
>call for them to make a menu item so that you can pick which way it works.
>Imagine, taking the time to do this, takes away time from fixing other bugs,
>and from introducing new things.
>So they have to weigh the benefits of the changes, and then weigh the
>consequences of not having a new product that would compete with their
>competitors on 6m, or on the internet, or ........
>I do not envy them.
>I just wish everyone would be more supportive, and not so immediately
>condemnative.
>TT is a great company, best service my bud has ever seen, and I'm afraid that
>some day they may decide that it is too much hassle to stay in the amateur
>market, and go with nothing but commercial products. Afterall, commercial
>probably pays the bills, and they have exacting specs on how things should
>work. Whereas selling to the amateur market is like selling to a thousand
>different customers with a hundred thousand different requirements, often
>varying from day to day from the same person. So many times I've seen where
>one person says something, then contradicts themselves the next week just to
>keep an argument alive.
>Remember what you got into amateur radio for in the first place.
>Helping others learn more about it
>adventure
>working together.
>That is why I started into the hobby, but I could see some who would read this
>list, and drop out because ... too much bs... it should be easier... the sure
>don't live up to their credo...
>This will be my last post, as I too am getting disheartened for now.
>
>
>Grant Youngman <nq5t@comcast.net> wrote: > Doug Smith's leaving TT was NOT an
>'urban myth'!
>
>
>But the notion that the Orion somehow died with him is. Positively.
>Absurd. Of course he left. Last I heard he isn't the last living guy that
>knows stuff. That he had the mojo and the rest is history -- that's the
>mythololgy, which has now become dogma. If Gary B did do the Orion II
>single handedly (maybe that's just another piece of mythology), how many of
>the whiners (and I've been one, too, at times) could even come close?
>
>Come to think of it, this whole series of threads is absurd.
>
>I don't understand why all the guys who think that they could do a better
>job, don't get together, throw in their savings accounts, and just build a
>radio. Then we'll see. Nothing is perfect for everyone. Not the Orion, or
>the II, or the 7800 or the 9000 or .... Nothing is perfect.
>
>The whole business is just filling up disk space in my DELETED folder,
>including this useless contribution.
>
>Grant/NQ5T
>
>
>
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