[TenTec] "End of an Era"

[Charles Greene]

Hi All,

Back in the early 70s, I sold all my tube rigs and went solid state 
with a Ten Tec 940 Triton IV and I vowed never to have tube rigs in 
the shack again.  This is still true except for a couple of linear 
amps.  Now I am contemplating to do the same with analog rigs of 
which I have several including the Omni-VI, and go to software 
defined radios.  This would apply to the shack, as analog rigs still 
have a place in portable and mobile operation.  I still have the 940 
and would probably keep it as a back up.  I plan to wait until Flex 
Radio comes out with there their top of the line software defined 
radio, designed to compete with the Orion, Yaesu FT1K and ICOM 
IC7800.  I have the SDR-1000 and it keeps getting better all the 
time, but there are still some hardware limitations that the 
developers have not come up with software work-arounds for.

73,  Chas W1CG