[Elecraft] After Rob Sherwood's Talk at Dayton

[Bill W4ZV]

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




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