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Re: [TenTec] OT: 7300 buy back program

To: k9yc@arrl.net, Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] OT: 7300 buy back program
From: kd3jf.paulgates@gmail.com
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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 06:15:08 -0400
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That is your opinion right?

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> On Aug 15, 2016, at 3:38 AM, Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon,8/15/2016 12:24 AM, rick@dj0ip.de wrote:
>> Many of the users are not satisfied - for whatever reason -  and have
>> buyer's remorse.
> 
> It's easy to see why, having owned the K3/P3 for a long time, one of the 
> radios whose features this one tries (and fails badly) to emulate. It's 
> billed as an SDR with knobs plus a touch screen spectrum display. All that's 
> true, sort of, but the display is too small for the touch function to work 
> very well. If you want the features of an SDR with the performance of a real 
> radio, you've got to aim a LOT higher. There's a reason that the Flex and 
> Elecraft radios cost as much as they do.
> 
> I don't see the 7600 as a step up -- among other things, it's fairly dirty 
> transmitting CW. I've got a neighbor 10 miles away using one who makes my 
> life miserable. I see the Kenwood TS590 rigs as the best bang for the buck 
> NEW radio today. I think a used Orion II or K3 is an awfully good deal.
> 
> 73, Jim K9YC
> 
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