[TenTec] Paragon Info Needed

[Jerry Volpe]

Ah, yes... the infamous major and minor loop board soldering problem. My 
Paragon fell prey to that New Years Day. UNLOCK! I debated sending it 
back to Ten-Tec but decided to fix it myself. Basically I removed all 
the solder from the boards... did a careful examination which lead to 
several traces that were just too close to one another... fixed those 
and resoldered. It worked immediately. I guess the circuit board vendor 
didn't do a great job on those boards.

I really like the Paragon... love the FADE and BP controls. It is not as 
sensitive as my Omni-VI+ on 15 and 10 meters and the Ten-Tec engineers 
told that was to be expected due to its general coverage design but it 
isn't that far off. For general haming around I use the Paragon... for 
contesting I use the Omni-VI+. I often think the Omni-V is probably a 
great meld of these two transceivers and I'm saving up to get one to add 
to my small Ten-Tec collection.

73, Jerry, KG6TT

Jim G wrote:

>Chuck, unless you are interested in AM go for the Paragon.  It is a superb 
>unit.  True there was a problem with soldering on the major and minor loop 
>boards but Paul and his boys at Ten Tec can take care of that in fine shape. 
>I just got mine back from TT for those repairs.  Dollar for dollar it can 
>not be beat  My total bill for the repair less shipping was $82.50.  Compare 
>that with repair on the rice boxes.  I used the FT1000D until I came across 
>a Paragon and the 1000D and I have parted company.
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>Jim
>K1QCF
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