Well, you can't please all of the people all of the time. Particularly when you
ask them to open their wallet and whip out a credit card. On the other hand, a
successful design team is a form of necessary insurance for any company. No new
products equals no business, sooner or later.
However, if local rumor is correct at least a couple of the local hams who
would not buy an Omni VI+ because it did not have dual receive are selling rigs
and getting ready to place an order for an Orion.
As for me, I will order my second Orion as soon as the house/shack remodeling
is far enough along someplace besides a couple of apple boxes to put it. And
the third hopefully in the fall when I make a permanant move to the farm. 78
acres in the country is a lot better for antennas than an 80 X 100 foot lot in
town.
73 Pete Allen AC5E
> At 07:41 PM 12/5/03 -0500, you wrote:
> >Thanks to all for the help. It was too simple for me to think of doing a
> >search on the net.(DUH!)
> >
> >I for one am quite pleased with my Omni 6+, and will have it for awhile. My
> >wish as stated previously a long time ago is to wait for Tentec to come out
> >with the next generation rig that will outperform AND out feature the
> >IC-7800.
> >Call it the Omega if you will, Hi Hi. But seriously, the next void that
> >really
> >needs filled is what AC5E and others suggest, a Pure DX rig without all the
> >extras for the contesters, but same level Orion performance in a single
> >reciever.
> >(and slightly lower pricetag) 73.
>
> I have to laugh, because when we were doing the Omni-VI Plus (whose close-in
> receiver performance, while not measured by the ARRL Lab, is comparable to
> the 20 kHz spacing numbers) - we always got comments like "I didn't buy an
> Omni-VI Plus, because it doesn't have a subreceiver, a this, a that, it
> doesn't
> have this thing....but I hear the receiver is great. And for contesting, I
> really
> need to have a....which the Omni-VI doesn't have. Boy, that receiver sure is
> something, though....."
>
> No plans for an "Orion Lite" transceiver.
>
> Scott Robbins, W4PA
>
>
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