TenTec
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [TenTec] "The End of Ten-Tec" (Yeah, Right)

To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] "The End of Ten-Tec" (Yeah, Right)
From: "Jim Younce" <k4zm@comcast.net>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:08:20 -0600
List-post: <tentec@contesting.com">mailto:tentec@contesting.com>
WRL was owned by Leo Myeres


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick - NJ0IP / DJ0IP" <Rick@DJ0IP.de>
To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] "The End of Ten-Tec" (Yeah, Right)


> Well the Globe Chief actually was built by World Radio Labs (WRL) - I 
> think
> in Colorado.
> Was a great transmitter.
>
> I can't remember the name of the owner of that company but I saw just a
> couple of years ago that he was still around, alive and kicken.  It was 
> Leo
> something...
>
> 73
> Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Marshall Stewart
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 8:43 PM
> To: 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] "The End of Ten-Tec" (Yeah, Right)
>
> What about Globe Chief?  I made a lot of Q's with my Globe Chief 90A!
>
> 73,
> Marsh, KA5M
> Formerly K5ZNJ (1961)
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>  From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
>> On Behalf Of Jim Younce
>>  Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 4:17 PM
>> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec  Equipment
>> Subject: Re: [TenTec] "The End of Ten-Tec" (Yeah,  Right)
>>
>> I doubt that Ten-Tec is about to close the doors.   It is a fact that the
>> amateur market is only a small percentage of the  company's business.
> Their
>> biggest volume is the manufacture of tools  & dies and metal boxes for
>> electronic OEM manufactures.  The  amateur business was a labor of love
> for
>> Al Cohn and Jack  Birtchfield.  When Al sold Electro-Voice and bought
>>  Ten-Tec
>>
>> a tool and die manufacture they decided to build a ham  transceiver. Al
> has
>> since become a silent key and I am sure Jack is  ready for retirement or
>> already has retired.  Both were great  gentlemen to do business with and
> to
>> talk to on the  air.
>>
>> However, I am old enough to remember when National Radio,  Hallicrafters,
>> Drake, Regency, Multi-Elmac, Gonset, Central  Electronics, Swan
>> Electronics,
>> Atlas Radio, Harvey Wells,  Morrow Radio,  Clegg Laboratories,  Webster
>>  Bandspanner,  Walter Ashe,  Technical Material Corp.,  Barker  and
>> Williamson,  Peterson Radio,  James Millen,   Hammurland, EF Johnson,
>> Heathkit, World Radio Labs, Knight, Lafayette,  Eico, Ameco, Hornet
>> Antennas,
>>
>> RME Receivers, Master  Mobile Antennas, Collins, and several other
> American
>> ham radio  manufactures were major players in the manufacture and sales 
>> of
>> ham  radio gear.  Now we are down to two, Ten-Tec and MFJ.  Some of  the
>> exodus was caused but the failure of engineering departments to  keep up
>> with
>>
>> single sideband  technology but a  great deal of them fell from the Asian
>> manufacture  competetion.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Jim Yoiunce  K4ZM
>>
>>
>>  _______________________________________________
>> TenTec mailing  list
>> TenTec@contesting.com
>>  http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
>>
>>  _______________________________________________
>> TenTec mailing  list
>> TenTec@contesting.com
>>  http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TenTec mailing  list
> TenTec@contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
>
> _______________________________________________
> TenTec  mailing  list
> TenTec@contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
>
> _______________________________________________
> TenTec mailing list
> TenTec@contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
>
> _______________________________________________
> TenTec mailing list
> TenTec@contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
> 


_______________________________________________
TenTec mailing list
TenTec@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>