[TenTec] "The End of Ten-Tec" (Yeah, Right)

[Martin Ewing]

and FlexRadio and SteppIR, plus lots of garage industries.

There's really quite a lot of domestic activity, but it's not clear how
profitable it is for anyone.  You generally don't know who has got a problem
in a privately held company, until they suddenly close their doors.

73 Martin AA6E

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Rick - NJ0IP / DJ0IP <Rick at dj0ip.de> wrote:

> Three (your forgot Elecraft).
> Four if you count Palstar.
> Then there are companies manufacturing amps such as QRO Technologies and
> Alpha (or whatever their name now is, under new ownership).
> And then of course there is Vibroplex, which is probably the oldest of all
> of these companies, and still manufacturing keys!
>
>
> Of the Golden Oldies, you forgot the Gotham antennas.
> That's all we kids could afford.
> Then there was Raytrack, Autronix, and Galexy.
>
> Where have all the flowers gone?
>
> 73
> Rick
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Jim Younce
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 4:17 PM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] "The End of Ten-Tec" (Yeah, Right)
>
> I doubt that Ten-Tec is about to close the doors.  It is a fact that the
> amateur market is only a small percentage of the company's business. Their
> biggest volume is the manufacture of tools & dies and metal boxes for
> electronic OEM manufactures.  The amateur business was a labor of love for
> Al Cohn and Jack Birtchfield.  When Al sold Electro-Voice and bought
> Ten-Tec
>
> a tool and die manufacture they decided to build a ham transceiver. Al has
> since become a silent key and I am sure Jack is ready for retirement or
> already has retired.  Both were great gentlemen to do business with and to
> talk to on the air.
>
> However, I am old enough to remember when National Radio, Hallicrafters,
> Drake, Regency, Multi-Elmac, Gonset, Central Electronics, Swan Electronics,
> Atlas Radio, Harvey Wells, Morrow Radio,  Clegg Laboratories,  Webster
> Bandspanner,  Walter Ashe,  Technical Material Corp.,  Barker and
> Williamson,  Peterson Radio,  James Millen,  Hammurland, EF Johnson,
> Heathkit, World Radio Labs, Knight, Lafayette, Eico, Ameco, Hornet
> Antennas,
>
> RME Receivers, Master Mobile Antennas, Collins, and several other American
> ham radio manufactures were major players in the manufacture and sales of
> ham radio gear.  Now we are down to two, Ten-Tec and MFJ.  Some of the
> exodus was caused but the failure of engineering departments to keep up
> with
>
> single sideband  technology but a great deal of them fell from the Asian
> manufacture competetion.
>
> 73
>
> Jim Yoiunce K4ZM
>
>
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Martin S. Ewing, AA6E
Member IEEE, URSI, AAS, ARRL
Branford, Connecticut