Well, the good news is that they do have competitors and those competitors are
turning out some pretty good products. Elecraft is high on my list. After
all, we have a competitive market system so why not take advantage of it.
It's not like we don't have a choice.
Gary, N7HTS
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:44:49 +0000
starmike@bellsouth.net wrote:
> I would have to agree with Doug here. We bought our rigs based on the
>Marketing that Tentec has done. A lot of us Orion II owners purchased based
>on the promise of the new "High Speed Sweep" that was coming. Well it has
>been coming for several years now and Tentec still has not delivered. And I
>suspect it may never come. And now with this latest news, new SW
>enhancements are not coming either. I do realize they need their military
>business, but they should not tell us what they are going to do and not do
>it. Well my 2 cents worth.
> -------------- Original message from "Douglas Shock"
><douglas.shock@gmail.com>: --------------
>
>
>> Hummm…I don't recall seeing any paperwork in the box my radio was shipped in
>> asking for my patience as a customer while they, TenTec, generate real
>> monies from the military/gov market.
>>
>> However, I do recall lots of marketing that stated frequent SW updates and
>> feature enhancements.
>>
>> I play in the gov/military space comm. sector. I get to perform product
>> evaluation/selection for future high speed comm. needs and I can assure
>> you…TenTec is not a huge player.
>> I am happy that so many of you are so patient and willing to make excuses. I
>> truly am. It makes me want to cry.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:28 PM, John Graves wrote:
>>
>> > I might as well jump into this pool.
>> >
>> > If I remember correctly, what was given to us from TT was a
>> > development list containing a list of possible options. It was also
>> > stated that the first of this list, essentially Ver 1.29 plus keyboard
>> > support and cw decode was being gone over for issues. The next follow
>> > on was to be support for the new screen for existing Jupiters (raise
>> > hand...Me...ME Please call on ME).
>> >
>> > I haven't seen anything that says that they will not release the first
>> > feature set if they are that close to releasing the new (Black)Jupiter.
>> > They apparently have cw decode on display. It is reasonable to guess
>> > that what they refer to as being delayed .... is development of the
>> > other features mentioned as possible, PSK support etc.
>> >
>> > I don't know// I think that TT doing bread and butter work is in our
>> > best interests as well.
>> >
>> > So that's my 2 (maybe 3 1/2) cents of this issue. Settle down and let
>> > them do what they have to do and we will be rewarded by improvement in a
>> > great little transceiver.
>> >
>> > 73 and Good evening
>> >
>> > John Graves
>> > WA1JG
>> > jh.graves@verizon.net
>> >
>> > Andrew B. Steen wrote:
>> > > I talked to the sales manager at TenTec, and there are no immediate
>>plans
>> > to
>> > > finish the development of the new firmware for Jupiter nor the new card
>> > for
>> > > the Orion II. They are focusing on a new radio for the military and that
>> > > has tied up most of the assets at this time. Maybe by early next year.
>> > > Andrew K6STN
>> > >
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:
>> > tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
>> > > On Behalf Of ab9go@earthlink.net
>> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 6:39 PM
>> > > To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
>> > > Subject: [TenTec] Jupiter firmware any news????
>> > >
>> > > I thought that TenTec would have it out by now. Any ETA?????
>> > >
>> > > 73
>> > > Randy AB9GO
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