[TenTec] re Scout...the VW bug

[Paul Gates, KD3JF]

I really think it depends what your interests are. Most people I would venture that bought the Scout were not  be buying all the modules.... If I had bought one for mobile. I would have been happy just for the 20 meter module. So, I usually operate 20 with a pair of hustlers or a Hustler in the trailer hitch in the middle of the van. I might have in time picked up a used module for 40. I certainly would not have wanted all the modules so the cost would not have been that bad. Probably the thinking of Ten Tec was that the average guy or gal purchased the Scout would just want a couple or at best 3 modules
 
Now my band work on  mobile is 40 mostly and laugh about the screwdriver antennas !! I am not a band hopper. Where i work one day a week. We have a Kenwood 450SAT and a Ten Tec Omni VI. I usually use the Omni and leave the 450 for PSK. Nothing against the 450 but just like the TenTec Omni better.

 
Paul, KD3JF
Glen Burnie, MD
FM19qd (Map Grid Square)


----- Original Message ----
From: "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj at hotmail.com>
To: tentec at contesting.com
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 1:41:16 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] re Scout...the VW bug



Granted if we look at it as a cheap customizable single band rig, it seems 
somewhat acceptable (but I don't think they were THAT cheap when new).  I 
simply think there are, or were, other, perhaps better, options out there.   
A used TS450 for example.  About the same price as a used Scout these days.  
I'd go with the 450.  To me the module architecture seems half-done.   If I 
were a lone minority on this, I think Ten Tec would be making more module 
type rigs.  They aren't as far as I know.