[TenTec] Jupiter

[Joe Malloy]

Paul, I've had my Jupiter since July of this year and it's a joy to behold.
Mind you, this comes from a fellow with a Triton IV, Argonaut 509, Corsair
(I) and an Elecraft K2, but the Jupiter takes the cake on overall operation
(which takes into account the 100 watts you can use if you have to).  I was
worried that I'd not like the system for punching buttons and using a commom
rotatating control, but it works out very easily (a wish: I wish Ten-Tec
would consider a "Tune" button that would put the rig into low power output;
not a big compaint, you see!).  The transmit reports I get on SSB are
nothing short of fantastic and the QSK, well, it *is* a Ten-Tec!  As far a
adjacent signal rejection, the DSP filter allows one to tighten receive
bandwidth down to 300 cycles; not far enough, in my opinion, but perhaps the
software for it will allow 100 cycles (or less!) some day.  I don't notice
any disadvantage to the received signal from adjent ones, but this is a
general purpose rig, not a dedicated contester's or dx-chaser's super-duper
rig (which cost twice or thrice as much).  But I haven't had much trouble
with the casual cw contesting I've dabbled in with the Jupiter.

Ten-Tec has a 30-day money back guarantee, I believe, so I'd give it a try,
if I were considering getting one -- you can't go wrong (I assume you pay
shipping back, but that's a small price to pay for a chance to try a rig).

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-admin@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-admin@contesting.com]On
Behalf Of Paul DeWitte K9OT
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 12:43 PM
To: TenTec@contesting.com
Subject: [TenTec] Jupiter


Now that the Jupiter has been around for some time, I would like some
opinions on the operation of it. Everyone says it is a very easy rig to
operate. I played with a Pegasus a little and did not like the way you  had
to do everything with the mouse (no remote knob on this one). I am not a
computer person and dont enjoy playing with them. I have a Corsair II and an
Omni C that I like very much because of the simplicity of operation, and
everything is out there on the front panel to see and is labled, and is
readily switched in or out.  I would not like a radio that has a bunch of
menues to go through every time I wanted to change something.I did like the
recieve audio on the Pegasus so if the Jupiter sounds like that I would like
it. Also how is it at rejecting strong adjacent signals like in a contest
where a guy might be up 3  or so, (CW). Is the filtering adequate to deal
with things like that? Any feedback would be apreciated, 73 Paul k9ot