On 8/5/2012 4:38 PM, Jim Brown wrote: > A contrast with other manufacturers is appropriate. Yaesu's flagship > radio, the FT1000 series in all its variations, is notorious for > REALLY BAD keyclicks, and three of the four DSP mic processing > settings can best be described as awful. It took them ten years and > three model changes to fix the clicks, and you had to BUY the > replacement (a new radio) that fixed the problem
> The original Ten Tec Orion was beset with LONG ongoing firmware > issues, and you wouldn't believe the bitching on the Ten Tec email > reflector about the new bugs in the bug-fixed firmware. The eventual > solution was the Orion II. Again, you had to BUY a new radio, and > again, no discount. Yep! Were I a marketing major in college and thus a marketing guru now, I would reply, "Good Show! One working good radio for the price of three. Way to go!" Fred K6DGW/7 Sparks NV ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
