Asked Mike same question when stopped at the tent in Xenia. He said one of the
main problem is that Dragonball processor is discontinued. They don’t have
spare parts and that would be the main problem for Orion.
I’m a big fan of Orion and Tentec but this type of answer makes me think twice
when I would consider to buy my next rig. So, we have what we have. The only
way I see if something goes wrong here is to replace that controller with
Raspberry PI 3 model B as the main controller. This is open platform, but that
would require some effort.
One of the advantage of this idea is that we would be able to have new display,
network connection out of the box and HDMI output. But I’m not sure how may
Orion owners would want to buy that new controller. So, it may not be self
sustainable project.
Regards,
Arthur VE3EUT
> On Jun 2, 2017, at 7:09 PM, dale via TenTec <tentec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I was planning to trade off some collins equipment and received a offer to
> trade the collins ,about 1100.00, for a Orion I. Is this a rig to stay away
> from? Has tuner, all filters, updated to blue screen. I have 2 worries,1 that
> ten tec is not going to be around as we know it and 2nd , there are major
> chips or chip that is no longer able to get ,from anyone ,yet alone Ten Tec.
> I have a closet kilowatt, and a mix of other ten tec gear , always liked it.
> If anyone has thoughts about this ,please get back.
> 73
> dale
> wt4t
>
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