[Icom] IC756PROll vs ORION

Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:15:46 -0600

The 756 Pro II is available right now with great QC. The Orion--what is the
term? vaporware?

Andy K5VM

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Jones" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Icom] IC756PROll vs ORION

> I thought it was a nice looking radio myself, especially once they work
out
> the screen color. Great features too and nothing really out there to touch
> it if it performs as advertised and the get the QC taken care of, 73,
Steve
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "HFSSB" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 10:48 PM
> Subject: RE: [Icom] IC756PROll vs ORION
>
>
> > I think it has that awkward/functional look.  Makes my think they
> > designed it with military sales in mind or just didn't care much about
> > the esthetics.
> > Marty
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: [Icom] IC756PROll vs ORION
> >
> > The ORION looks nice, resembles the PRO and it may even be better, but
> > remember the marketplace rules. For example does anyone use a BETA
> > VCR?
> > They had a better picture than VHS, the entire drive system was
> > basically
> > one rubber tire, but VHS won the video war, only time will tell. BTW,
> > I
> > have a PROll and my 1984 BETA machine, it's in mint condition, and I
> > use
> > it. Ken
> >
> >
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