- 1. [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers (score: 1)
- Author: "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 19:34:59 +0200
- Along with the transceiver clones, there are amplifier clones. A clone of the OM-Power amplifiers has been selling down under for about a year. Apparently they have opted to test the Australian marke
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-05/msg00722.html (8,287 bytes)
- 2. Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers (score: 1)
- Author: Kimberly Elmore <cw_de_n5op@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 10:48:31 -0700 (PDT)
- How is it that the Chinese make these so cheaply? Is all the cost in labor, or do the Chinese make every component themselves using cheap labor such that we need only pay for materials? If the make e
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-05/msg00724.html (8,793 bytes)
- 3. Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers (score: 1)
- Author: "R. Eric Sluder-W9WLW via TenTec" <tentec@contesting.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 11:20:41 -0700 (PDT)
- How about option #3 - build your own amp? :-) My rag chew buddies on 80 meters are pestering me to build my own so they can hear me over the summer static crashes when my measly 600 PEP isn't cuttin
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-05/msg00726.html (10,061 bytes)
- 4. Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers (score: 1)
- Author: Robert <rmcgraw@blomand.net>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 14:06:15 -0500
- My concern is the spectral purity. I know it may say it meets "bla bla" but from my experience that is just text printed on a label. Yes the label is required for the item to be sold in the US but do
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-05/msg00729.html (10,256 bytes)
- 5. Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers (score: 1)
- Author: K8JHR <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 15:22:17 -0400
- _____________________________________________ Communism, Comrade. The Chinese government supports and runs its whole economy and it has decided to run certain sectors at a loss while it builds up inf
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-05/msg00730.html (13,399 bytes)
- 6. Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers (score: 1)
- Author: "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 21:54:16 +0200
- Bob, that's "your" concern (mine too), but it doesn't seem to concern the people who continue to buy FT-450D's. And of course many other dirty rigs. Those guys won't hesitate to buy one of these. 73
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-05/msg00732.html (10,868 bytes)
- 7. Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers (score: 1)
- Author: geoffrey mendelson <geoffreymendelson@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 23:07:12 +0300
- On 5/28/2014 10:06 PM, Robert wrote: My concern is the spectral purity. I know it may say it meets "bla bla" but from my experience that is just text printed on a label. Yes the label is required for
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-05/msg00735.html (9,204 bytes)
- 8. Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers (score: 1)
- Author: "kris merschrod" <kris@merschrod.net>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 17:01:22 -0400
- Jim, my mileage may vary, but I go down the same road of analysis that you posted - the Chinese have been doing the predatory pricing and extended credit since before Colombus "discovered" the new Wo
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-05/msg00736.html (13,613 bytes)
- 9. Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers (score: 1)
- Author: José Félix Ballester <jfballester@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 22:41:00 -0500
- Been there suffered that. Thats the way totalitarian governments (economies ) operate and if they are run by communists who like many religions want to dominate those who dont think like them, they w
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-05/msg00739.html (13,787 bytes)
- 10. Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers (score: 1)
- Author: K8JHR <jrichards@k8jhr.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 00:44:36 -0400
- INDEED ! BRAVO - WELL PUT! -- JHR -- On 5/28/2014 5:01 PM, kris merschrod wrote: Jim, my mileage may vary, but I go down the same road of analysis that you posted - the Chinese have been doing the pr
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-05/msg00740.html (8,821 bytes)
- 11. Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob McGraw - K4TAX" <RMcGraw@Blomand.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 06:53:38 -0500
- Isn't the FT-450D made in China under the Yaesu label? I seem to understand that to be the case. 73 Bob, K4TAX Bob, that's "your" concern (mine too), but it doesn't seem to concern the people who con
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-05/msg00742.html (12,790 bytes)
- 12. Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob McGraw - K4TAX" <RMcGraw@Blomand.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 07:07:33 -0500
- Indeed true. Very well stated and one to which we should all take heed. 73 Bob, K4TAX -- Original Message -- From: "José Félix Ballester" <jfballester@gmail.com> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-05/msg00743.html (16,440 bytes)
- 13. Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers (score: 1)
- Author: george fritkin via TenTec <tentec@contesting.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 05:19:46 -0700 (PDT)
- As the former CEO of a large electronics company, I really object to this out of hand criticism of not made in USA manufacturing, and stating that we just slap labels on products without justificatio
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-05/msg00744.html (16,309 bytes)
- 14. Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers (score: 1)
- Author: "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 14:26:33 +0200
- I have heard that too, but don't know that to be the case. That would explain its filthy transmitter! It is quite possible that the Chinese radios my buddy got ahold of actually came from the same as
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-05/msg00745.html (14,033 bytes)
- 15. Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers (score: 1)
- Author: "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 15:15:25 +0200
- George, that is a fair point. However so far, the radios I have seen manufactured in China have had very dirty transmitters. The VHF radios I own (two different Chinese brands) both have very poor fr
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-05/msg00747.html (17,810 bytes)
- 16. Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers (score: 1)
- Author: "Duane Calvin" <ac5aa1@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 08:26:22 -0500
- Two points: 1. Isn't the FT-450 designed by Yaesu's Japanese engineers - same team as their other rigs? Isn't Yaesu quality control still the issue, not the Chinese build? 2. This isn't the first dir
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-05/msg00749.html (18,900 bytes)
- 17. Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers (score: 1)
- Author: "Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 15:59:36 +0200
- Indeed you are correct, Duane. In fact since the late 90s, almost all low-cost transceivers that were produced in Japan have been dirty, but they were mostly dirty with respect to broadband phase noi
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-05/msg00750.html (21,353 bytes)
- 18. Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers (score: 1)
- Author: Phil Sussman <psussman@pactor.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 10:02:35 -0400
- Note: Most Chinese radios have a 'language switch' hidden in their firmware. I had the same problem, but an internet search revealed the memory location. Granted, it's difficult if you don't understa
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-05/msg00751.html (14,924 bytes)
- 19. Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers (score: 1)
- Author: Cecil <chacuff@cableone.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 09:10:59 -0500
- You don't even want to get me started.... Maybe the quality was the same...maybe it wasn't...I don't know...but just the fact that your company (and many others) took its manufacturing to China is at
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-05/msg00752.html (19,810 bytes)
- 20. Re: [TenTec] OT: Chinese Amplifiers (score: 1)
- Author: george fritkin via TenTec <tentec@contesting.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 07:12:52 -0700 (PDT)
- Don't mix products designed by local Chinese companies and sold world wide versus products designed by companies in the US, Japan, Germany, GB, etc and manufactured in China. Yes the locals may cut
- /archives//html/TenTec/2014-05/msg00753.html (21,272 bytes)
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