[TenTec] New Product News?

[Peter Inskeep]

Joe, 
In reply to your note below:
I was at Dayton yesterday.  Headed for the TenTec booth as soon as the
inside opened at Noon. 

TenTec was displaying two new receivers and a new Titan II.
The Titan II, model 416, "comfortably delivers 1500 watts output in SSB,
CW, and even digital modes.  Ten-Tec's lightning fast QSK is built-in;..."
Tube is as Svetlana 4Cx1600B.  Recovery time is 7 milisecs. Available: Late
Summer, 1998.  $2,990   [this all right from their spec page].

Model RX-320.  $295.  Small black box that connects to a computer running
(ugh!) windows 3.1 or 95.  Connects through the serial port.  Takes about 1
meg of hard drive space.  100Khz to 30 Mhz.  Runs in the background.
Output can be through your PC soundboard speakers ( "AUDIO: 1 watt at 4
ohms. > 1 v p-p output into 600 ohms (typical to drive a sound card,
external speaker.

The spec sheet further states: "This is a true Digital Signal Processing or
'DSP' based receiver.  This cutting edge, software based technology
dramatically reduces the number of individual electronic components inside.
 This makes it possible to provide features only dreamed of in previous
receivers in this price class."

Availability is anywhere from 3 to 6 months.  It sounded like the machine
was still in alpha testing by members of the Ten-Tec staff.  The
demonstrator, whose name I don't recall, said that they would probably then
go into beta testing and then put it on the market.  [Perhaps this could be
the outboard VFO for Omni VI users].

RX340 Receiver.  There were two huge receivers sitting on the table.  One
was open so we could see inside.  The rig is a spin-off of one of Ten-Tec's
military and/or government receivers.  It was not clear to me from what the
demonstrator said if they actually plan to produce this for the consumer
market, or if it is a concept only at this time.  If it were to sell, he
said it would be in the $4,000 price class.  Don't quote me on this,
though.  Apparently the adaptation included putting controls in the box
that the governement version had elsewhere, perhaps on a computer driving
the government version.  Since the Omni VI was sitting right next to it,
and I was more interested in the Omni VI, I jumped to it when the crowd
thinned a bit, and did not find out more about the RX340.  From the looks
of it I imagine you could hear a pin drop on a marble floor on Wallis &
Futuna Is.

Otherswise, the booth was constantly busy each time I returned to look
again.  Their used/demo equipment was being sold out from under me even as
I was tweaking the dials.  There seemed to be a great deal of enthusiasm
for what Ten-Tec makes.  

Overall, it was a great show and I feel fortunate to live close enough (3
hours) to be able to drive up there and wander around for a day.

If anyone has any other questions about the Ten-Tec display, or other
things, I would be happy to respond direct and copy the reflector if it
would be of interest to Ten-Tec reflector members (ie., dealt with TT).

Pete
NO2D
Pewee Valley, Ky
Often powered by Linux

PS.  No, the RX340 does not have Linux software planned.
    





At 07:33 AM 5/16/98 -0500, Joseph Koppi wrote:
>Anyone out there tapped into Dayton who can confirm what is new from Ten-Tec?
>Any other Dayton news?
>
>Joe Koppi, W0SU
>W0SU@pclink.com
>St. Paul, MN
>
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