[TenTec] Lineage of Ten-Tec

[Winston F. Jones]

See I told you guys there's lots of good stories out there about Ten-Tec!!!

It's worth noting that Ten-Tec was one of the first ham manufacturers to
build all solid state radios. The imports were all tube hybrids at the time.
Also, Ten-Tec was first to have real QSK on CW. They have always built super
CW radios and also rigs with superb audio, with very low distortion. Maybe
that reflects the preferences of an old audio and CW man like Al Kahn.

Anybody care to colloborate with me on a book? I have several years of media
and public realtions experience.

73, Winston K4CWQ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ten-Tec Inc. Amateur Radio Sales" <sales@tentec.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 12:10 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Lineage of Ten-Tec


>
> Reid:
>
> The story below is correct.  The PA system referred to was set up
> by Al Kahn (K4FW).  Mr. Kahn grew up in South Bend and started
> Electro-Voice there in the 1920's and the story of how he named his
> company has been accurately repeated to you.   After selling E-V in
> 1968, Mr. Kahn bought a 15 acre piece of land and had a two story
> building built right across the street from the Electro-Voice plant in
> Sevierville, TN., and named his new company Ten-Tec.
>
> Mr. Kahn was also directly involved with Heathkit's beginning's in
> Benton Harbor, MI in the late 1940's (just down the road from
> Buchanan).  Mr. Kahn "donated" a train car load of war surplus
> electronic parts to Heath, and that load of parts became the
> foundation of the O1 oscilloscope, Heathkit's first electronic project.
>
> Mr. Kahn continues to be the chairman of the board of Ten-Tec,
> is still active daily on HF CW and at age 94 is enjoying his
> well-deserved retirement in southwest Michigan.
>
> Scott Robbins, W4PA
> Amateur Radio Product Manager
>
> At 08:34 AM 1/12/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >
> >Do you know how the name "Electro-Voice" came about?
> >
> >Since I am from SW Michigan where Electro-Voice currently resides, the
story
> >we heard was that Knute Rockne (legendary ND Football coach and professor
of
> >Chemistry) needed a device that he could use during practice so that the
> >team members could clearly hear him.  This company (then in South Bend,
> >Indiana I believe) built him a PA system that Knute referred to as his
> >"Electric Voice".  At least that's the story as told around that part of
the
> >country.  That was back in the 1930s so some embellishment of the story
> >since then is quite possible.  Some say that there were also some ties to
> >the Heath Company but I could never substantiate that.
> >
> >Reid, K7YX
> >
>
>
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