After Rob Sherwood's Talk at Dayton

[k4win]

Hello to the fine folks on this reflector:

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.

I went directly to the Elecraft booth and ordered my K3 and P3 combo.
I had been reading for some time about the great treatment owners receive from Elecraft. (I got the free hat) and I look forward to a long relationship with Elecraft.

My Orion will be up for sale shortly, along with a few other radios to lessen the economic blow.
Regards,

Chris
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P.S. I'm keeping most of my Drake gear. (I like old toys too)




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Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 10:29 PM
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Subject: [Elecraft] After Rob Sherwood's Talk at Dayton

Hello to the fine folks on this reflector:

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.

I went directly to the Elecraft booth and ordered my K3 and P3 combo.
I had been reading for some time about the great treatment owners receive
from Elecraft. (I got the free hat) and I look forward to a long
relationship with Elecraft.

My Orion will be up for sale shortly, along with a few other radios to
lessen the economic blow.
Regards,

Chris
[hidden email]

P.S. I'm keeping most of my Drake gear. (I like old toys too)




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[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