And not very contest-effective! 73 - Rick, DJ0IP (Nr. Frankfurt, Germany) A well constructed magnetic loop works very well. Not easy to do. _______________________________________________ TenTec mail
I ask myself that question almost every day. The only answer I find is, "it's fun." Luckily we make half our money in the commercial market which enables us to keep selling into the ham market (and s
Mike posted long ago that Ten-Tec was only taking emails, no phone calls. He has repeated that several times since then in various emails. No point in continuing to try and call them. They won't answ
Hmm, make that MON/TUE/WED answering emails. I finally learned what order the days in the week come in. 73 - Rick, DJ0IP (Nr. Frankfurt, Germany) Mike posted long ago that Ten-Tec was only taking ema
Paul, Partially true, but you left out the bit about blood, sweat and tears! About 3 months ago I had a long phone call with Mike. I told him what I thought the industry needed, SDR, clean transmitte
Some of you guys are really missing the point. To date, Mike hasn't tried to sell us anything. He is only helping as many people as he can with the limited resources that he has. We're seeing emails
If you have been here long Haney, then you must have become accustomed to the fact that we don't just discuss pure Ten-Tec topics. All sorts of topics relate to Ten-Tec. I've been in the group for 15
As you said, it's what's keeping Ten-Tec alive. They have been busy producing commercial receivers and that project run was supposed to run out in August. After that there was hope of ham radios agai
Be careful Allan, Some of my temporary ugly fixes are over 40 years old now! ;-) 73 - Rick, DJ0IP (Nr. Frankfurt, Germany) And nobody actually responded to my question...Please, guys, if you don't re
What's your call sign, Kevin? 73 - Rick, DJ0IP (Nr. Frankfurt, Germany) My beloved Omni VII has a low power problem in SSB (LSB / USB) transmit mode. Confirmed the problem with a Bird wattmeter and a
I know lots of hams like to brag on their new radio but the new does wear off. Many of the users are not satisfied - for whatever reason - and have buyer's remorse. One German retailer has a trade-up
Oh I agree Jim. There's a reason all of these dealers have stock piles of 7600s. However the guy I was listening to who did this is one of those 80m rag chewers, and since many of them operate in "al
What are you implying, Paul? I fully agree with Jim for stating known facts, not opinions. These dirty transmitters have been reported on often; just read arrl lab report measurements and check where
Well now I will disagree with Jim "slightly". I don't think Icom over-sold the product; Joe Ham overestimated the radio. I think they let their wishes run away with their understanding. As a kid I dr
Opinions are like... and we all have them. Here's mine: IMO we ARE there now. At least the technology is. The price is still high but rapidly coming down. You must be careful with the term "SDR". Tha
In plain English Paul, it overloads MUCH too easily. To prevent that, you have to use a lot of attenuation; here in Europe even more than the radio has built in. Then it does not overload but you can
Well many of us are in similar financial situations Mike, but all of us can read and we should just simply read what the OEM says/prints and stop dreaming. Direct sampling is a new technology. This i
The overload problem was reported by: Here is ICOM's reply (from an eham.net review): == " Thank you for contacting Icom America. Unfortunately given the extremely harsh operating environment you are
Tim, you are right (only) about the 7300. Most hams will not have a problem with the 7300 because they do not operate in the environment where they would get this problem. Even if they do come to a b
We are talking about technology and problems in transceivers and this applies to Ten-Tec just as much as any other brand. 73 - Rick, DJ0IP (Nr. Frankfurt, Germany) Ummm, why are we talking about an I