Is SGC is around. I have a SGC-2000 which operated on ham, marine and other
frequencies also have their tuner.
Jim (wd4air)
> From: k4zm@comcast.net
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:17:29 -0600
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] "The End of Ten-Tec" (Yeah, Right)
>
> I doubt that Ten-Tec is about to close the doors. It is a fact that the
> amateur market is only a small percentage of the company's business. Their
> biggest volume is the manufacture of tools & dies and metal boxes for
> electronic OEM manufactures. The amateur business was a labor of love for
> Al Cohn and Jack Birtchfield. When Al sold Electro-Voice and bought Ten-Tec
> a tool and die manufacture they decided to build a ham transceiver. Al has
> since become a silent key and I am sure Jack is ready for retirement or
> already has retired. Both were great gentlemen to do business with and to
> talk to on the air.
>
> However, I am old enough to remember when National Radio, Hallicrafters,
> Drake, Regency, Multi-Elmac, Gonset, Central Electronics, Swan Electronics,
> Atlas Radio, Harvey Wells, Morrow Radio, Clegg Laboratories, Webster
> Bandspanner, Walter Ashe, Technical Material Corp., Barker and
> Williamson, Peterson Radio, James Millen, Hammurland, EF Johnson,
> Heathkit, World Radio Labs, Knight, Lafayette, Eico, Ameco, Hornet Antennas,
> RME Receivers, Master Mobile Antennas, Collins, and several other American
> ham radio manufactures were major players in the manufacture and sales of
> ham radio gear. Now we are down to two, Ten-Tec and MFJ. Some of the
> exodus was caused but the failure of engineering departments to keep up with
> single sideband technology but a great deal of them fell from the Asian
> manufacture competetion.
>
> 73
>
> Jim Yoiunce K4ZM
>
>
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