[TenTec] JUNIPER (Jupiter) NEWS.

[bill ny9h]

i love my omni6+ ( rev 3 version; my Argonauts 509/515, my herc, auto tuner 
, 238 & titan .....
Regarding the gripes,
I don't think the folks at TT think we will pay the extra bucks it costs to :
1. get out the birdies and the lsb wierdness    (Omni series)
2.  make them as rf imune as the competitors Peg &  Jup ( did the kachinas 
get wierd around rf ??)
3. make the tuning knobs feel 'better'
  ( I THOUGHT THE IMPROVEMENT FROM OMNI 5 TO 6 WAS MORE THAN ADEQUATE)

MAYBE THIS GUY DOUG WILL BRING A GOOD SOURCE OF FEEDTHRU CAPS, FERRITES 
CHOKES AND WHATEVER ELSE IT TAKES TO GET A TT PRODUCT EQUALLY EXCELLENT IN 
ALL THEATRES ....AUDIO / DIGITAL /  RF.

I remember about six years ago someone suggesting thet TT was an RF house, 
so some audio things slip by... like: O, you can't put the power supply 
next to the radio...it  will hum....

I read this week that the birdies are actually fewer on a true 6+, COMPARED 
TO A REV 3 VERSION  Any truth to this ?   and did anyone do those mods to 
the 6+, other than the author of the mod?

bill



At 03:51 PM 6/8/01, Paul Morawski wrote:

>Jack (and the rest) --
>
>I had the same experience with my Jupiter at our beach house on
>NA-083 and I returned it to TT last week.  It worked fine at my
>home QTH, where I have much more control over the environment,
>but at the beach house I have a G5RV up in the trees and it's
>catch as catch can.  I've successfully used a Delta II, Scout,
>and FT-100 there with no hint of problems from local RF.  Next
>weekend I'm taking a newly acquired used Omni VI+ down there
>and I expect none of this nonsense.
>
>I got a polite lecture from Paul at Ten-Tec about controlling RF in
>the shack, but I wasn't swayed.  This is not what I expect from a
>modern transceiver.  The Jupiter is a lot of fun but unacceptably
>brittle.  If they don't get it together they will start losing their
>dedicated following.
>
>Paul, AA3DD
>
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