Chris Pinholster wrote > I am a new Elecraft K3 owner, I received mine yesterday. I made my > decision right after I heard Sherwood speak in the Drake forum at Dayton. > He gave high praise to the K3, and I thought gave short thrift to the > Orion 565, which I owned. After the forum was over, I approached Sherwood, > asked him about his Orion remarks and > the comparison to the K3. He answered me politely and directly. He was > exactly right about the Orion. The encounter with Rob convinced me.
When Orion was first introduced in 2003 it was the best performing radio available. Unfortunately Ten-Tec management then went through a "dry spell" with uncharacteristically poor responsiveness and firmware support. Since John Henry took over engineering a few years ago, Ten-Tec has turned around and done several good things to refresh Orion including a really good Sub-RX instead of the poor one in the original unit. IMHO Orion remains one of the better rigs available today. There are still some things about it I miss (such as the flexible antenna selection matrix...not possible in the K3 due to limited front panel space). The moral to this story for any company is to always maintain responsiveness to customer input. So far that remains one of Elecraft's stellar strengths. 73, Bill W4ZV -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/After-Rob-Sherwood-s-Talk-at-Dayton-tp7574928p7574931.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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
