Chuck,
I'd have to agree. I've had mine for well over 2 years now, and made
contacts with it QRP and QRO (big guns = 50 watts...hi hi). I get good
signal reports (if you can believe signal reports...but that's another
question), and I seem to make contacts to the same areas of the world my
friends with Corsairs and Omnis (and Yaesus and Icoms, and Kenwoods) make
(most of the time, to the same hams!). For my money, it sounds a whole lot
better than the Icoms or Yaesus I've used, for a darn sight less pain in the
wallet. Perhaps the complaints get more press because the rest of the Scout
owners are on the air....hihi.
73,
William Patrick Goveia, Network Operations Specialist
Education Technology Services, School of Education
Indiana University, Bloomington
wgoveia@indiana.edu KB9RBW
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Brudtkuhl [mailto:brudtkuhl@qwest.net]
> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 12:28 PM
> To: tentec contesting
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Scout Question
>
>
>
> Alan, I've commented on this before on this reflector but
> its been some time ago..
>
> I've owned my Scout so long now I can't remember. I've used
> it portable on batteries with wire antennas in FD
> situations, extensively as a mobile unit in frigid Iowa
> winters, "pension mobile" in Germany (DL/WA0ROI) and
> Austria (OE2ZBM) with makeshift wire antennas as part of a
> "suitcase station".
>
> Never, ever in its life have I had so much as a glitch of
> "abnormal" operation. I've had the cover off once .. to
> install the noise blanker. So from my view, the "rumors"
> are likely "well-covered" complaints of a very few? I
> really don't know. I do know that I have nothing but praise
> for the unit.
>
> 73 de Chuck
> wa0roi
>
>
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