I have had the Paragon and indeed it is one fine radio. That is until I
obtained an Omni VI Plus. Great radio indeed. Decided after a bit that I
wanted a general coverage receiver and thus sold the Omni VI Plus and
bought
a Paragon II. Really fine radio much nicer than the original Paragon.
Decided that I wanted even better radio so I purchased a late model Omni
VI
Plus. In all cases I loaded them with the desired Tentec filters. And
the
love of my life sits on the shelf above the Tentec's and that is my prized
1960 Collins S-Line consisting of a 32S-1 transmitter and a 75S-3B
receiver
along with the 516B power supply and speaker.
As to the Tentec's,. I use a matching power supply on each one of them. I
see that I do need to update the pix on QRZ.COM as it is "short" one set
of
radios.
73
Bob, K4TAX
A connoisseur of fine radios
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vic Klein" <vhklein@ptd.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] PARAGON vs OMNI V VI VI+
As Ten Tec's first synthesized HF radio, I think some maligned the
Paragon
unfairly. There were some teething issues (reminds me of what you read on
the Orion) due to some mechanical soldering problems on the PLL board,
but
those were addressed and for my money the Paragon is hands down the best
value in a top end radio out there! I have had mine for several years and
it
is great. It replaced a Kenwood TS-930, which was no slouch itself, but
the
Paragon clearly beats in every aspect. In our morning drive-time 2m
get-together we have 3 committed Paragon users, and a couple more using
Omnis or Deltas. Nobody wants to trade to a different radio.
As an aside, like someone mentioned about the Collins S-Line (truly
classic
good looking rigs), I think the Paragon and Omni V-VI radios are the best
looking modern rigs. I was sorry that Ten Tec went to the basic black or
gray of the current line.
=Vic=
WA4THR
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To: tentec@contesting.com
Subject: [TenTec] PARAGON vs OMNI V VI VI+
From: "kartooo@netzero.net" <kartooo@netzero.net>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:35:27 GMT
List-post: <mailto:tentec@contesting.com>
Hi,
Never see anything about the paragon vs other rigs on here. I just
recently
purchased a paragon and i love it. I use it only on ssb and i have all
the
filters and gehiel chip. I have owned the top end yaesu,kenwood,icom
stuff
in
the past but really like the simple straight fwd working of the paragon
and
it's looks. I have owned maybe 15 to 20 used rigs and always get bored
and
re-sell. The paragon is a keeper for sure.I know the later omni's carry a
bigger price tag onn the used market but why ? the cabinet and layout
look
the
same as the paragon. what are the extra features and do they really add
that
much more value to the radio ?
TNX.
Larry N1YW
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