[TenTec] DX info / Future Tentec gear

[Ten-Tec Inc. Amateur Radio Sales]

At 07:41 PM 12/5/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks to all for the help. It was too simple for me to think of doing a
>search on the net.(DUH!)
>
>I for one am quite pleased with my Omni 6+, and will have it for awhile. My
>wish as stated previously a long time ago is to wait for Tentec to come out
>with the next generation rig that will outperform AND out feature the 
>IC-7800.
>Call it the Omega if you will, Hi Hi. But seriously, the next void that 
>really
>needs filled is what AC5E and others suggest, a Pure DX rig without all the
>extras for the contesters, but same level Orion performance in a single 
>reciever.
>(and slightly lower pricetag) 73.

I have to laugh, because when we were doing the Omni-VI Plus (whose close-in
receiver performance, while not measured by the ARRL Lab, is comparable to
the 20 kHz spacing numbers) - we always got comments like "I didn't buy an
Omni-VI Plus, because it doesn't have a subreceiver, a this, a that, it 
doesn't
have this thing....but I hear the receiver is great.  And for contesting, I 
really
need to have a....which the Omni-VI doesn't have.  Boy, that receiver sure is
something, though....."

No plans for an "Orion Lite" transceiver.

Scott Robbins, W4PA


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