[TenTec] Re: [Ten-Tec] New 60 mtr band

[KE4TEG]

We should not start pointing fingers at Ten-Tec. They never said the Omni 
VI was 60M ready or upgradeable. As none of their older radios will be 
either. Only their new rigs support instead band adds.

And now for the obvious, the reason you bought an Omni VI in the first 
place is its crystal filtering and tuning. No artificial noise floor caused 
by synthesizer noise to cover up the weak signals. That has a price and 
that price is it is next to impossible to add additional bands unless they 
were planned for and actually already built into the radio.

The guys that bought radios before the WARC bands were available were in 
the same boat when they were added.

73 Keith
de KE4TEG

At 07:58 PM 07/16/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Todd, I don't blame TenTec for not offering a mod for the 60 Meter band. It
>wouldn't be a difficult conversion, it would be an almost impossible one.
>
>In order to do a halfway decent job and preserve the appearance and
>functionality of the rig you would either have to redesign the bandpass
>filter board to add another filter and its associated reed relays, AND add
>another pushbutton to the front panel pushbutton setup to add another band:
>or remove one band entirely and change it's pushbutton to one marked 60.
>
>While the second option would not be difficult,  which band do you want to
>lose?
>
>73  Pete Allen  AC5E
>
>73  Pete Allen  AC5E
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