[TenTec] Latest posting

[GARY HUBER]

> Let's face it people, you get what you pay for, and what Ten Tec have done for me in the Corsair 2, is to >give me a rig that at least can pull those woolly sheep out of the mist. 
>Coupled with superb break-in and high quality keying, running a mere 90w to a doublet, it is a pleasure to >beat the rice-cooker-afterburners in a cw pile up. 

AMEN - You can't work 'em if you can't hear 'em. And it matters not the cost of the rig, the number of buttons or knobs, fancy panels, nor digital circuits. If you can't hear the weak DX through the noise, you've got no chance of making the contact. I'm keeping my Corsair II as long as I can keep it going ( a big thank you to Ten Tec for their continued support of their fine old radios) and maybe it'll out last me, I sure hope so.

73 & DX,

Gary - AB9M - www.csm-gh.com<http://www.csm-gh.com/> 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Malcolm McLeman<mailto:malcolm.mcleman at free.fr> 
  To: tentec at contesting.com<mailto:tentec at contesting.com> 
  Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 1:25 PM
  Subject: [TenTec] Latest posting


  Corsair 1, 2 or 3. Omni 1 or 2. 
  Corsair I can speak for, Omni I can only judge from it's daily presence on the reflector that it must be a pain in the butt for the lesser technically minded.
  Who needs a rig with a television screen anyway!
  Let's face it people, you get what you pay for, and what Ten Tec have done for me in the Corsair 2, is to give me a rig that at least can pull those
  woolly sheep out of the mist. 
  Coupled with superb break-in and high quality keying, running a mere 90w to a doublet, it is a pleasure to beat the rice-cooker-afterburners
  in a cw pile up. 
  Now for the brickbats.
  What I do object to is Ten Tec's ha'penny worth of tar attitude which I hope does not prevail through their entire modern production line. 
  Corsair, state of the art, and expensive with it, for it's time. 
  Lousy side-tone, lousy internal potentiometers to adjust delicate parameters, pinch penny mixing techniques leading to normal sideband and
  not normal sideband as opposed to USB/LSB,  lousy front panel potentiometers that seem to have been packed with carbon dust from day one,
  and wait for it, lets not forget the Corsair perennial of perennials.... PTO grease or the lack of.
  Well that's my h'penny worth, good luck with your new purchases.

  Malcolm/F5VBU

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