I'm not interested in taking sides in this (for now anyway, I've reached the
point where I've quit caring--burnout? Orion is too much radio for my tiny
ant. farm anyway.) but I _would_ like to point out that I think the RX 340
was built and sold for professional use. There's a difference between a guy
sitting down in front of a radio for an evening's enjoyment and someone
who's getting paid to walk up to a rack mounted receiver in a commercial
facility, dial in a frequency, take a few readings and move on to something
else. I doubt if the 340 was designed to be sold to hobbyists who would
spend hours sitting in front of it for pleasure. These kinds of radios are
geared more towards being tools to get a job done. People who are in radio
for fun sometimes have a different set of requirements.
73,
Rob Atkinson
K5UJ
k5uj@hotmail.com
----Original Message Follows----
From: "Billy Cox" <aa4nu@ix.netcom.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Re: Orion Concern
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 11:50:37 -0500
>It's hard enough to sell a $3300 rig these days... and putting as
>backwards a screen as this for the first thing you see when looking at
>one, on the front panel of their best transceiver, is one of the worst
>moves I've ever seen.
Yet ... the RX-340 ... at a higher price point ... and a rcvr ONLY,
commands a still higher price ... and does NOT have the "must
have" or "I won't buy it color display" ...
I don't recall a single post on that TT model as to "I won't buy it,
because of the lack of the multi-color display ..."
Much a do about nothing is what it all seems like at this point ...
73 Billy AA4NU
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