[TenTec] Ten Tec Fan Disappointment....

[Rsoifer at aol.com]

Jim,
 
I feel for you!  Fortunately, being 25 miles south of Tucson I rarely  
encounter strong local signals, except for one guy on 160 with key clicks who  shall 
be nameless.  He isn't running T-T or Elecraft but he puts out  multi-KWs.
 
Years ago when I lived in DC I was running a KWM-2 (which I still have BTW)  
and a ham across the street had an FT-101E.  'Nuff said!
 
73 Ray W2RS
 
 
In a message dated 11/19/2008 7:25:52 P.M. GMT Standard Time,  
k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com writes:

On Wed,  19 Nov 2008 10:08:37 -0800, Ron Castro wrote:

>Ray:  FWIW  although I'm not a contest "heavy", 

While the K3 has some "features"  advantages over the Orion family, 
the MAJOR advantages of the K3 are its  far superior RX strong signal 
performance and much less TX sideband trash.  That allows high power 
stations to co-exist much closer to each other. My  neighbor W6DRX is 
about 0.3 miles from me. N6RZ is about two miles, K6XX  about 5 
miles. W6DRX and I both bought K3s solely because of our  proximity! 
In the recent SS, we were both able to run high power on the  same 
band without killing each other. K6XX runs K3s. We can work within  
500 Hz of each other on CW. There are many situations like mine in 
the  Bay Area. 

BTW -- I just received the sub-RX mod for my K3, and it is  equal in 
performance to the main RX (actually better than the main RX if  you 
use the direct antenna input, because there's no switching in the  
way). I'm getting used to running the two RXs in diversity mode.  

BTW -- I'm going through these details not to bash the Ten Tec  
products, but rather to emphasize the fact that there's no good 
reason  to trade in your Orion or Omni VII unless you're a VERY 
serious contester  or weak signal DXer! 

73,

Jim  K9YC


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