[bars] Fwd: TentecOmniVII at groups.io | Tentec Service Announcement #2

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Thank you Eric for your part in promoting  "Ten Tec on High end Government Rcvrs. By W8ZR.

In '78 enthralled by CW Traffic, I bought the TS-900, the best transceiver I could find, a hybrid with pair of 6146 finals.  It was poor for CW.  Doing what all hams do I went shopping, and discovered the only totally solid state transceiver, with true full break-in,  designed and made in Tennessee.  With the 150 Hz filter, it was $200 cheaper than the TS-900.   This is 1978, a light weight radio, would run from 2 - 100 W from 12 v battery.  The radio design was and is today outstanding.  I had one failure, the 150 Hz CW filter, sent it to Ten Tec service in 2017, replaced 220K resistor bias for filter OPAMP for $100.00.  It's now 44 years old and runs perfectly.  It's in my go bag for when I need it.  The 7300 SDR spectrum is more fun to use.  Like many Ten Tec users, I hope, in the future they return.

Thanks for these memories.....

73,
Henry - WA1VAB


-----Original Message-----
From: bars <bars-bounces at w1hh.org> On Behalf Of Eric A. Cottrell
Sent: Sunday, February 6, 2022 2:07 PM
To: bars at w1hh.org
Subject: Re: [bars] Fwd: TentecOmniVII at groups.io | Tentec Service Announcement #2

Hello,

I am not surprised given some of the past actions and changes with Tentec.

I was interested in the RX320 a few years ago, but eventually saw a purchase as a dead end with little/no support.

The RX-340 is an interesting radio because of the similarity to the WJ-8711A. There is a reason for that.
http://amfone.net/Amforum/index.php?topic=23042.0;wap2

73 Eric

On 06-Feb-22 12:13 PM, Andy Wallace wrote:
> Ten-Tec is closing down. Perhaps we can recount what rigs of theirs we liked and why.
>
> Didididahdidah.
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> 😭😭😭
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> https://groups.io/g/TentecOmniVII/topic/88939254#19366
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> Andy
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