According to Osterman's HF receiver book, RME merged with Electro-Voice
in 1953. The last RME receiver listed in the book is the 6900 built
from 1959-1962. The author says that there may have been a 6902.
Bob WB2VUF
"Simmons, Reid W" wrote:
>
> Yes, RME was also located in Buchanan. MI., (relocated from Chicago, I
> believe??).
>
> I think it would be great if Ten Tec would add the history of the company to
> their WEB site. Many companies do that.
>
> Reid, K7YX
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard Smith [mailto:howard.smith@mixcom.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 8:49 PM
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: [TenTec] Lineage of Ten-Tec
>
> Hi All,
> As a new Novice in the early 60's, my first Ham receiver was the RME
> 4300. The receiver was build by the RME Division of Electro-Voice, Inc. of
> Buchanan, MI. I wonder if Al Kahn was involved directly with RME? As I
> remember, there was the RME6900, another HAM receiver that appeared around
> 1962, but then RME seemed to disappear. Could that disappearance have been
> the formation of Ten-Tec?
>
> On one of the early versions of the Ten-Tec Web page, there were several
> paragraphs that described a little bit of the Ten-Tec history, including
> the Knute Rockne story. Unfortunately, this did not remain on the web site
> very long.
>
> J. Howard Smith, WA9AXQ
> howard.smith@mixcom.com
>
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