I agree. Just add a spacious easy to service interior, maybe like the early
Omnis. (plug in circuit boards ?)
Sent from my way over priced iPad !
> On Feb 20, 2017, at 10:30, rick@dj0ip.de <Rick@DJ0IP.de> wrote:
>
> Long ago Jack Burchfield designed the Scout to be "his" radio.
> He wanted a simple radio to use mobile and portable.
> Making the latest greatest radio on the planet was not part of the goal,
> although the Jones filter (at the time) was innovative.
>
> The Scout was indeed a very simple radio and is still sought after on the
> used market.
>
> About a dozen years later, the Orion had just announced and Jack and I were
> discussing the successor for the OM 6. Why was he discussing with me?
> Because I had just launched his new Central European Distributorship:
> Appello (here in Germany).
>
> My opinion was, we needed a bare bones radio, single RX, ham-band only (no
> General Coverage 'GC'), and its front end should be crunch-proof for the EU
> market. It should incorporate the excellent DSP filters of the Orion.
>
> Jack agreed that this would be the right radio for the two of us but he
> thought it was not what Joe Ham wanted. It lacked bells and whistles,
> specifically the GC receiver and a Bandscope. He thought that made better
> business sense. The radio that followed was the OM7.
>
> In 2010, Jack contacted me and told me he was sending me "my" radio. He had
> built the radio I asked for several years earlier; the Eagle. Well if only
> the S-meter had been a little larger, it would have been my radio - hi.
> Simple, straight forward good performing radio.
>
> TODAY: Things have changed a lot. With modern SDR technology, it is easy
> and cheap to build a radio with very good performance. It seems most hams
> want even more features than they did a dozen years ago. ICOM has proven it
> can be done with the 7300. I guess the street price now is only $1300 or
> $1400.
>
> IMO, Ten-Tec has no chance to chase the market of full-features radio for
> Joe Ham.
> There is opportunity for a high-end O3 type of product and there is market
> for a high performing, simple radio in the spirit of the Scout, and then
> Eagle. Let's call it Eagle II.
>
> What should Eagle II look like?
>
> IMO Yaesu has the mobile market wrapped up with their tiny 100w all hf band
> transceivers. But their transmitters are dirty, key click spectrum bad, and
> nobody over 50 would want to use something like that for home use.
>
> So I don't think it should be the goal of the Eagle II to be a tiny radio.
> Nor should it have all the features of the 7300. It must be a great
> performer but at as low of entry level price as possible.
>
> My Opinion:
>
> o Larger Cabinet - Omni 7 size is about right
>
> o Slightly larger display but don't mess it up with hundreds of tidbits of
> information. Make frequency readout and S-meter large.
>
> o No built-in Bandscope or Panadapter
>
> o Facilitate easy connection to an external Panadapter by bringing both the
> 9 MHz IF signal,
> and the RX signal (after passing through the ham-band LPFs) to the back
> panel. These are both options for the original Eagle. There are plenty of
> proven solutions for connecting to this.
>
> o Larger S-Meter
>
> o Larger Knobs
>
> o Dedicated PTT and AMP Key jacks on the back panel - NOT a DIN jack.
>
> o AMP KEY must have hang time added to it (and all amp timing optimized)
>
> o Separate inputs for Paddle and Hand Key
>
> o ATU optional (I have only ever used mine when operating portable - I use
> Model 238B when at home because I also have an amp). Don't make people pay
> for things they will never use.
>
> o Noise Blanker - not sure whether it should be standard or optional. If
> one never plans to go mobile, why pay for it? In the interest of keeping
> Entry Level price low, make it optional.
>
> o At least one more filter slot
>
> o "2nd RX Ready" - either as internal slot or Jack for external box
>
> LIKE ELECRAFT with its K3(S), the options not used by everyone should be an
> extra cost option. Without noise blanker and ATU, the entry level cost is a
> good $200 lower.
>
> It must have the famous T-T QSK, and nice clean audio on TX and RX.
>
> So, that's my idea.
>
> WHO's NEXT ?
>
> 73
> Rick, DJ0IP
>
>
>
>
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