Toby Pennington wrote:
I was just forwarded an email from the poster of the Lousy eHam Review
describing his experience with the Jupiter and Ten Tec. He seemed to have
some very real issues with the Jupiter including RF problems which could not
be resolved. His ground system was installed under his house when it was
built, and all his other rigs worked very well and he has quite a few well
known rigs. Other issues involved how he was handled by Ten Tec personel.
It seems like someone may have dropped the ball at TT to some extent.
I have had really bad rf problems before and it can drive you nutty trying
to fix it. The guy was fed up and it shows in his post. Happy July 4th
all!
I don't know what the problem is (I have my thoughts about it, though)
with some people and the Jupiter, but I had one for a few years before
trading it in on the Orion and I thought it was a pretty good radio.
Transmit audio was very nicely adjustable, receive audio was plentiful,
and the software was field updatable and stable. No RF or grounding
problems here and I used it on all bands, modes and power levels with
nary a problem (and believe me, I didn't have a very advanced antenna
system at the time (still have a basic, but better one) or grounding
system -- a G5RV and a pipe 8' in the ground!). I'm not a DX'er but
worked numerous countries on all the upper bands (okay, maybe the
sunspots had something to do with it!). As far as I was concerned, it
was and, as far as I know, a great radio -- for its price point.
Maybe some people expect more.
73,
Joe, W2RBA
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