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

[Bill Taylor(W4WBT)]

Guys, the new band is 3 to 5 years away as best guess. the only fault 
I see is tentec making a big deal about the present line being 
upgradeable. Who knows what will or will not be 3 years from now.
Bill Taylor



>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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