Ha, I sure do!
How many remember the Hilberling PT-8000?
It took 6 years from first showing in Friedrichshafen until getting it into
reasonable production units.
The first several years they had trouble getting production runs to match
the performance of the hand-built engineering units.
It's a long ways to Tipperary!
73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Reed Krenn
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 3:43 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] repairs
How many on this list remember Yuri's Dream Radio One??
Reed / WW3A
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Paul Gentry <phgentry@gmail.com> wrote:
> What you stated is possibly one reason why it's not in production yet.
> This was a new product showcased at Dayton last year (2013) and was
> supposed to be out by August 2013! Here we are roughly at November 2014.
>
> Of course I could sight other products including RF Concepts tuner,
> and Ten Tec's Patriot. Manufacturing issues including sourcing parts,
etc.
> sometimes leads to the products never coming into production. As you
> stated though, price is the leading factor to buyers and usually
> trumps everything else. Why buy the Palstar when you can buy an Eagle
> that arguably has more features, is in production, has the bugs worked
> out, and is cheaper? The TR30a definitely won't come in at under 1K as
you wished.
> The QRPer blog listed a range of $1500-2000.
>
> Paul K4BWG
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Dave Edwards <kd2e@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > I kind of like what I see in that Palstar.
> > It now all depends on the price. It simply has to come in
> > significantly less then other beginner rigs.
> >
> > ....Dave
> >
> >
> > On 10/28/14, 2:37 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> >
> >> I don't suppose there is a big enough market to support Ten-Tec or
> anyone
> >>
> >>> else coming out with this kind of basic rig (other than in QRP
> versions).
> >>>>
> >>>> It looks like Palstar may gamble that there is:
> >>> http://www.palstar.com/en/tr30a/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> It is an interesting rig, but I don't see it as being easy to
> >>> service
> >> or easy to keep a stock of essential replacement parts for.
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