Why would they drop the Centurion? It uses the easy to buy 3-500Z's.
The Titan II uses the hard to get 4CX1600B. It would be easy to put
the Centurion in a black box.
Jim W7ANF
Quoting "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj@hotmail.com>:
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> Thanks Jim,
>
> After I sent that message, I thought about it some more and concluded that
> the company would probably continue the Centurion until a point in time when
>
> revenue would not be enough to support production, and discontinue it, and
> sell only the Titan II, since it has the newer more generic look. I bet the
>
> company strategy, which I think is wise, is to design the accessory products
>
> so they blend in with a variety of rigs, thereby selling not only to Ten Tec
>
> devotees but also to the wider ham market for linears, transmatches etc.
> Instead it sounds like the generic look will be black for everything. I
> guess that's called survival.
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