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

[Eric A. Cottrell]

Hello,

There are some threads from a few years ago on Radioreference.com that 
talk about various changes, including increasing the fees to have the 
radio serviced and the owner complaining that their tech was spending 
too much time chatting with customers on the phone.

I own a WJ-8711A and have several other SDRs (Elad FDM-S2, SDRplay, 
etc). I know several hams that have owned TenTec over the years and they 
are solid radios. I do hope they recover, but it seems like the current 
owners are driving it into the ground.

73 Eric

On 06-Feb-22 2:57 PM, hgcsenior at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 😭😭😭
>>
>> https://groups.io/g/TentecOmniVII/topic/88939254#19366
>>
>> Andy
>> KA1GTT
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