Hello Geoff,
I looked at the web page in the link carefully, Sorry, I must be blind, I
did not see any where that the marketing said the Orion was a SDR. TT
never specifically states any of the radios it made were a SDR. There is a
'possible' inference from W4PA's comment.
http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/TenTec/2003-11/msg00547.html
However the words 'sounds like' in the post translates to me as 'is not'. I
could well be wrong, and TT can clarify that at any time.
Many discussion on this have gone before. There is a reasonable beleif from
hearing TT speak that these radios are not perceived at TT as SDRs.
Best wishes,
Rich
K5SF
>From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
>Reply-To: gsm@mendelson.com,Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
><tentec@contesting.com>
>To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [TenTec] My take on how to "fix" the Orion.
>Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:32:30 +0300
>
>On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 01:06:05PM -0500, Richard Detweiler wrote:
>
> > Yet the premise is wrong, The Orion is not and never was a SDR. This
>may
> > be a reason TT sees the firmware as a bit less important. The
>electronics
> > works fine doesn't it?
>
>From: http://radio.tentec.com/Amateur/Transceivers/TT565
>
>" At the heart of the Orion II design is a pair of 32-bit floating-point
>ADI SHARC DSP processors. Using dual 32-bit devices provides much more
>processing "horsepower" than a transceiver using a single 32-bit DSP
>processor can provide. The result? Absolutely unparalleled HF receiver
>performance, filtering, and flexibility."
>
>
> > If the Orion were really a SDR then the rest of the suggestions would be
> > correct
>
>The above says to me, that if Ten-Tec does not consider it an SDR, they
>need
>to tell their MARCOM (marketing communication) guys. :-)
>
>Geoff.
>
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