I am actually happy with my Orion 2 !
Walt K8CV
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Turnbull" <turnbull@net1.ie>
To: <TenTec@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:50 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Final Firmware O2
> I feel this sad situation. Did the complaints on this web site lead
> to disillusionment by the good people at TenTec? We had an active forum
> for the O2 but it was ignored perhaps because it became irrationally
> critical at times. Now we seem to have an Orion II which is no longer
> being developed -too bad. There is great amount that is right about the
> OII but it seems to now be frozen. I now own both OII and K3 like many
> other people who read this and the Elecrafter site regularly. Go to the
> Elecrafter site and one finds the owners active engaged with the consumers
> in an amazing way.
>
>
>
> I still use my Orion II sometimes in preference to the K3. For one
> thing the external pod of the OII is very useful in contests when one does
> not have software controlling the computer. Both are very good radios
> but
> the Orion II seems to have become a product of the past. Future
> development seems unlikely though I will probably purchase an Orion III if
> it ever comes out. I suppose we complained too much and we have been
> dropped. Perhaps I will be eating humble pie and I would not mind doing
> so. What ever happened to the new PCB to improve the Frequency display
> did
> the threats and hostile comments of some turn the good people of the
> mother
> ship off? I do know one thing and that is that many of the people who
> use
> to be on this site are not on the Elecrafter site. It is exciting to own
> a
> radio which is still being developed though not everyone feels this way.
>
> Well, I remain an Orion II user. The radio is not for sale and I
> hope
> to see further improvements but am not counting on it. TenTec lead the
> way
> towards greatly improved receivers. Thank you TenTec for leading the
> way.
>
> 73 Doug EI2CN
>
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